Femi Adesina, presidential
spokesman, says President Muhammadu Buhari will announce his cabinet when the
time comes.
It has been 26 days since the
president was inaugurated for his second term in office. He has since made just
three appointments–Mele Kyari as the group managing director (GMD) of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and renewal of Ahmed Idris’s
appointment as the accountant-general of the federation and renewing the
appointment of Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
He is, however, yet to make any
ministerial appointment. In 2015, it took the president six months to announce
his cabinet.
But speaking in a chat with The
Interview, Adesina said “the circumstances are not the same”, adding that it
would not take as long as it did in 2015.
“Nigerians will not have to wait
a day longer than necessary, before they have a cabinet,” Adesina said.
“And as the president himself has
said, the process won’t take as long as it did in 2015, because the
circumstances are not the same.”
Speaking on the insecurity in the
country, Adesina said it has been in existence for a long time, as far back as
the 1914 amalgamation.
He added that the Buhari
administration is, however, not overwhelmed, assuring Nigerians that “the
country shall be victorious”.
“It was an unwilling union,
forcefully consummated by Lord Frederick Lugard. Since then, it had been
uneasy, with grave suspicion rifling through the polity,” he said.
“It was not helped by the colonial
masters themselves, who played one ethnic nationality against the other, to
serve their own interests.
“These tensions spiked in recent
times, particularly with the advent of democracy, in which people could make
utterances, however indecorous or divisive they may be.
“The security challenges are
enormous. Insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery, communal strife,
criminality generally. These are truly dire times, and as the president has
said, they are results of the corruption, decay and neglects of the past.
“But is the government
overwhelmed? By no means. The challenges are being tackled, and we will
eventually overcome. Nigeria is greater than the challenges, no matter the
hidden hostile hands that are encouraging them.”
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