President Mohammad Buhari has rejected the list of seven members of the National Working Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) jostling to be appointed as ministers.
The national officers of the party according to a high placed source, got the shock of their lives when they visited there president Muhammad Buhari, recently at the Defence House temporary office in Abuja.
Our reporter gathered that when the national chairman of the party presented the ambitions of his council members to Mr. Buhari, he quickly warned them to kill the ambitions saying, all of them should face their responsibility as party leaders.
Some of the APC NWC members jostling for ministerial positions according to the sources include the National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Muhammad, who hails fro Kwrara state, former governor of Ekiti state and Deputy National Chairman (South) Segun Oni, National Vice Chairman (North-east) Engr. David B. Lawal from Adamawa, National Youth Leader, Alhaji Dasuki Jalo from Gombe, National Women Leader, Alhaja Ramatu Tijjani from Kogi state and Emmanuel Eneukwu from Enugu state.
A highly placed source at the party national secretariat told our reporter that the NEC led by it National Chairman had earlier met with president Muhammadu Buhari behind closed door at his temporary Defence House office in Abuja over the matter but Chief Oyegun refused to discussed the matter with the president.
The source said: “When the NWC members met with Buhari on the issue of ministerial appointment, though the national chairman refused to tender the request of some NWC members who want to be ministers to President Buhari, the only thing he told him was for his leadership to be carried along in the process.
“But it seems President Buhari knew what was about to happen, he told the party leaders right there not to contemplate becoming part of his cabinet, he told them to stay where they are and build a strong party.”
Another party leader from southern region, who pleaded anonymity disclosed that the inordinate ambition of some leaders of the party responsible for the poor handling of the crisis rocking the National Assembly over its leadership.
