The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Buhari’s Wednesday sacking of Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Nanono and his Power counterpart, Saleh Mamman, as a “ludicrous and infective attempt to cover for his (Buhari) failures in office.”
The party said in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan that it is also investigating the real reason behind the sack of the two ministers given President Buhari’s public approach to fighting corruption by “easing out” the culprits.
The party insisted that the manifest inefficiency of the Buhari administration is a product of President Buhari’s myopic and divisive approach to governance as well as the impunity and corruption deeply embedded in his administration and party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“The PDP posits that even if the best hands are recruited, they will be contaminated by incompetence, impunity, disregard to rules, divisiveness and corruption that have become the hallmark of the APC and its administration.
“The party calls on President Buhari and the APC to note that Nigerians are not swayed by the sack of the ministers but are eagerly awaiting the exit of the Buhari Presidency and the APC come May 29, 2023, as there is no hope in sight under their purview,” the party said in the statement.
Recall that President Buhari had on Wednesday afternoon sacked two of his cabinet ministers in charge of Agriculture and Rural Development as well as that of Power.
No reason was given for their sack but Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina confirmed their sack and immediate replacement by Ministers of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud Abubakar (Agriculture) and State, Works and Housing, Abubakar Aliyu (Power).
It would be the first time President Buhari would sack any of his serving ministers since coming into power in 2015.
