Send your cabinet packing now - APC chief tells Buhari to get technocrats to move Nigeria forward

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- Ebi Beredugo, is asking President Muhammadu Buhari to reshuffle his cabinet

- Beredugo suggests the appointment of technocrats so that the government can meet its promise to the people

- He further says the politicians in the current cabinet have overstayed their usefulness

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state, Ebi Beredugo, has reportedly asked President Muhammadu Buhari to reshuffle his cabinet and bring technocrats into key positions in his government.

The Punch reports Beredugo, as saying that President Buhari must tinker with his cabinet for the APC to bring the needed change to the people as promised in 2015.

According to him, many of the politicians in the cabinet of Buhari have outlived their usefulness and should be allowed to go.

“The president must tinker with his cabinet. He must bring in technocrats. He must use technocrats to move the country to the next level.

“I want to say that some politicians who surround the President have been there for too long and they are not making any headway. It is the time the president brought in technocrats.

“There is an erroneous notion that it’s the politicians that would work and return the President for a second term. No, the goodwill of Nigerians will bring him (President Buhari) for second term, not those politicians who have lost touch even with their grassroots.

“It is not those politicians that can deliver the president; we must get this clear because they are separated even from their grassroots.

“They can’t even deliver their states. They can only use federal might to come and cause confusion because they cannot actually deliver their states.

“So why not bring in technocrats and let Nigerians feel the change in their lives? Why don’t bring them in so that Nigerians can begin to enjoy the dividends of good governance?

“Can we actually and sincerely say if an election holds right now today, can we actually say President Buhari will win that election? Does he still have the goodwill of Nigerians to believe in him that we are making progress?

“Are we making progress in the anti-corruption fight, why should we enter 2018 without reshuffling his cabinet?” He asked.

Beredugo, a lawyer, noted that the controversy that followed the appointment of some people into the board of parastatals was a pointer that the Buhari team was no longer effective as the list prepared since 2015 should have been vetted before it was released.

“Even though we support this government, sometimes we are ashamed of the things that come out of the presidency.

“How can you be creating a board for a parastatal that is not supposed to have a board or for privatised companies?

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“So, even the president is still operating from a very wrong perspective and these are things in civilized societies, heads are supposed to be rolling and people are not supposed to wait for their heads to roll but tender their resignation letters even before time.

“But it is Nigeria and anything can happen. So we now have people that are in their graves made board members. I hope they will give their family members their sitting allowances.”

NAIJ.com earlier reported how Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has reshuffled the Kaduna State Executive Council and appointed additional two new commissioners.

The information is in a statement by Mr Samuel Aruwan, the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the governor on Friday in Kaduna.

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