Orji Kalu, former Abia State
Governor, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint only those who
supported his 2015 Presidential election into his cabinet.
Kalu made the appeal while urging
Buhari to compensate those who campaigned aggressively for him during the 2015
poll.
The former governor noted that
only those who worked for Buhari, to realise his presidential ambition,
deserved a place in his cabinet.
Featuring on African Independent
Television (AIT) programme, ‘Clear View’ Kalu said, “I will encourage the
president to play this game as a politician because, if you have appointed
people, let them do the job.
“Also, appoint those people who
followed you during campaigns so that they can have the benefit of where you
want to be.
“You cannot just win an election
and import people to come and run the same government you want; it is not
possible, it is not going to work.
“So, politicians are supposed to
run with the mandate they ran around with to win the election. If you go
around, you will hear people saying, ‘we won election and the president doesn’t
want to bring everybody on board.’
“So, the president should, as
much as possible, bring people who worked with him on board.
“In fact, if I were in the
president’s shoes, all the people who ran the presidential election with me and
those who did not run and some leaders deserve to be told, you have one
minister, go and appoint him and bring for me.
“The minister is Buhari’s
minister; he is not Orji Kalu’s minister. But you help to appoint him because
you worked for the party. That is the essence of constitutional/business
democracy.”
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