The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has commended Nigerians for their patience and perseverance over the delay in the appointments of ministers, saying that the list would be released soon.
National publicity secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who spoke with journalists yesterday in Oro, in Ifelodun local government area of Kwara State at his annual Ramadan lecture also admitted that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari would have faired better had the ministerial appointments been made before now.
Lai Mohammed, however, explained that the delay was caused by the change of government from one political party to the other.
According to him, ”the concern of Nigerians over the delay in the release of ministerial appointments is genuine. But the fact is that this is the first time in the history of Nigeria that the opposition party will take over government from the ruling party.
“Our plan was to interface and interact with the outgoing government, but it didn’t just work out so the party set up its transition committee which later presented 800 pages hand over documents to the president”
“So,in this kind of situation we found ourselves, we have to be thorough in making appointments because expectations of Nigerians are very high and it is understandable. So, very soon the ministerial cabinet list would be made available and it would be a thing of the past. We might be slow, but in reality when we make the right appointments, we will make up for all the shortcomings Nigerians have been complaining about.”
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