"Nigeria is broke and that there was no need telling lie about the economy" said Buhari. Insisting that everyone should take note. However, the opposition party, PDP condemned him foir such statement.
He pointed out that his reasons for presenting 36 ministerial nominees to the senate is because of the country's situation. The President spoke when he received Senate Presideent Bukola Sariki who brought a report of the last batch of confirmed ministers.
The President further expressed his gratitude to the Senate leadership for its support for his administration as it strives to follow the constitutional provision that states that the President should submit the names of those he wants to form the cabinet.
He further stated,
“As I
said, the work was not difficult because of the quality of nominees that came
in. Secondly, it is the fact that we put in the time to vigorously put the
nominees to answer the questions and at the end of the day, we found out that
most of them met the requirements and the Senate was satisfied.“You
noticed that in some cases we delayed the number of one or two,it is all part
of politics, of behind the scene, but at the end of the day, we finished with
them, that is all about give and take and eventually, I am happy with what the
Senators have done. The entire 108 Senators, we have done a good job and I
believe we have laid the platform for the government to fully take off”.On the
concern of possible ministers without portfolio, the Senate President said:
“Well, I think before you had ministers of state in the past, I don’t think
there is anything new, there were ministers for special duties which really
don’t have portfolio. I think the key issue is being in cabinet, is being part
of government and those that would have the responsibilities of ministering are
those that at the end of the day, would do that.“So,
minister of state is not new. We had it before, if you remember that very well.
Honestly, I believe we need to move away from the small is- sues and begin to
focus on the major issues. I think the country presently now is at a very
trying time no doubt about it.
“We have the challenges of revenue drop, challenges in trying to boost revenue and create jobs and you know we have some of these issues which we really need to ad- dress and I think that it is time for us to address them and these are some of the issues we looked at as a Senate, that it is time for us to give support to the executive to move the country forward and I think all of us apart from those in the legislature and the executive and even those of you in the media, we must begin to prof- fer and put our country in a positive view otherwise, there is no way we are going to have those major issues addressed”.
On the criticism which the President’s statements has attracted, Saraki said,
“As I said it is not new in having all not full-time ministers, but let us wait to see what portfolio or responsibility some of them will have. I cannot speak on behalf of the President on that, but we have done our own constitutional responsibility”.
On why he brought the letter personally to the President, he said, “because there were other things we discussed. As you can see after you left, we discussed for about 20 minutes on some major issues as well. So, it wasn’t just about the letter.Asked to divulge the issues discussed with the President, Saraki said,
“I think at the right time they will get to know. I have a constituency which is the Senate which I must first engage and I am sure with time…..the major issue has to with moving Nigeria forward”.Asked if the issue of his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) came up, he replied, “did you think that will come up in this kind of situation? No it didn’t come up,” he said.
SOURCE: SUN NEWS
“We have the challenges of revenue drop, challenges in trying to boost revenue and create jobs and you know we have some of these issues which we really need to ad- dress and I think that it is time for us to address them and these are some of the issues we looked at as a Senate, that it is time for us to give support to the executive to move the country forward and I think all of us apart from those in the legislature and the executive and even those of you in the media, we must begin to prof- fer and put our country in a positive view otherwise, there is no way we are going to have those major issues addressed”.
On the criticism which the President’s statements has attracted, Saraki said,
“As I said it is not new in having all not full-time ministers, but let us wait to see what portfolio or responsibility some of them will have. I cannot speak on behalf of the President on that, but we have done our own constitutional responsibility”.
On why he brought the letter personally to the President, he said, “because there were other things we discussed. As you can see after you left, we discussed for about 20 minutes on some major issues as well. So, it wasn’t just about the letter.Asked to divulge the issues discussed with the President, Saraki said,
“I think at the right time they will get to know. I have a constituency which is the Senate which I must first engage and I am sure with time…..the major issue has to with moving Nigeria forward”.Asked if the issue of his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) came up, he replied, “did you think that will come up in this kind of situation? No it didn’t come up,” he said.
SOURCE: SUN NEWS
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