President Buhari
NIGERIANS may be in for another round of wait to know when the ministers-in-waiting will be sworn in by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The 36 ministers-in-waiting were all confirmed last Thursday after a drama that saw Senators elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stage a walk-out.
It took about four months for their names to be forwarded to the Senate for confirmation by President Buhari.
The screening lasted a month with final parliamentary nod given on their nomination on October 29.
Expectation was that the ministers would be sworn in the moment the president arrived from India.
However, the Presidency could not confirm the day the ministers would be inaugurated, as at Saturday.
Presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, told Sunday Tribune that Nigerians have to wait to know when the inauguration would take place, stating that it is only the president that can say when he will swear-in the ministers.
Adesina told Sunday Tribune that since it is the president that has chosen the ministers to work with him, he remains the person to tell when to inaugurate them.
When pressed to comment on the possible day of the inauguration, he said, “After ministers have been cleared, the next thing is inauguration, so just wait.”
He went further to say, “It is only the President who can say when because he is the one that has the mandate and is the one bringing the ministers to work with him so we need to wait till he makes pronouncement on the day he is inaugurating them.”
Adesina also commented on the 25th anniversary of Scripture Union (SU) in Abuja and said “anything that promotes righteousness and godliness is something that we should applaud.”
He said: “We know the history, the antecedent of the SU in Nigeria; how they have impacted the lives of young people and old people alike.
“So the fact that such a group is 25 years in FCT is something worthy of celebration and I pray that it grows from strength to strength.”
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