Buhari In Dilemma Over Choice Of Ministers,
First Lady, Others Disagree With President On Nominees. He’s Not Prepared For Governance, Says PDP. We’re On Course, APC Counters

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Except a bit of consensus is reached among interest groups in the Presidency, particularly among members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s family, the public may have to wait a while longer to see the choice of ministers that would form the new Federal Executive Council.

While the suspense lasts however, criticisms between leading opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) continue to escalate.

While the PDP sees the delay in ministerial appointments as no surprise on the claim that President Buhari is unqualified for governance, the ruling party, however, insists that its government is really on course as far as governance and policy implementation are concerned.

Sunday INDEPENDENT gathered that announcement of the choice of ministers is being allegedly held up by the wife of the president, Aisha, on one hand, Isa Funtua, a close family friend and businessman, and Buhari’s Uncle, Mamman Daura, on the other hand.

As gathered from competent sources, the wife of the president had openly showed deep resentment at the return of Abba Kyari as Chief of Staff to the president.

A close first family source told this the newspaper that “Aisha was assured by Funtua that there will be sweeping changes in the president’s ministerial and kitchen cabinets before the elections earlier in the year, a reason why she participated in the re-election of her husband.

“But with the return of Kyari against several criticisms trailing his performance during Buhari’s first tenure, the wife of the president hasn’t been happy.”

The source added that the decision to return Kyari again was pushed by Daura, the president’s uncle who now operates offsite from the Presidential Villa.

“Kyari is Daura’s eye and ear in the villa”, the source further explained, adding that, “the president believes that his uncle still has his interest and wellbeing at heart. But the wife of the president, before the election, had been critical about the choice of people surrounding her husband during the first tenure.”

As alleged before by the First Lady, Buhari’s government was being controlled by two people, who, according to her, had brought hatred to the party and her husband’s administration.

As a result of her disenchantment, there had been pressure on the president to drop ministers and aides who were deemed not have performed well in the first tenure.

Source:Independent.ng