The presidency has said there was
no big deal about the controversy being generated by the inclusion of dead
persons' names on the list of appointees into the boards of agencies and
parastatals.
The federal government had on
Friday evening, announced the appointment of 1,468 Nigerians into the boards.
But checks revealed duplications
names, inclusion of names of dead persons and individuals who are no longer in
the ruling All Progressives Congress.
The Presidency however downplayed
the matter Saturday as, according to a spokesman of the president, there was
nothing scandalous about the list.
The spokesman of the President
Garba Shehu, told Premium times by telephone that “the list has a history”
which explains the controversy around it.
“In 2015, Mr. President requested
all state chapters of the party to submit names of 50 party members for board
appointments,” he said.
He said the names where compiled
by the national secretariat of the APC and forwarded to the then secretary to
the government of the federation, Babachir Lawal.
“However, complaint arose from
some governors who felt they were not carried along in the process. To answer
this, the president constituted a committee under the vice president to review
and reflect the interest of the governors”.
Mr Shehu however said action was
delayed on the report of the committee headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
as President Muhammadu Buhari took ill.
“The current SGF was only
directed to complete that process by releasing the list which he apparently did
without altering it,” Shehu explained.
While admitting that errors were
committed, he added that “no human undertaking can be free of mistakes”.
He said the errors identified
with the list were not enough to describe the exercise as scandalous, adding
that all errors in the list would be corrected.
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