By Bode Olagoke
Abuja
Indications emerged yesterday that the President-elect, Muhammadu Bubari, has rejected all the ministerial lists proposed to him by state governors and their party leadership in the states, saying that “no one has the right to appoint ministers” for him, just as he would not appoint commissioners for any of the governors.
Our correspondent exclusively gathered yesterday at the APC national Secretariat that where the President-elect had passed a message national leadership of the party for onward communication to the governors.
The President-elect, according to sources, had been bombarded with long lists of names of people believed to be governors’ loyalists, while some other names came from other prominent party members who believed they could have their ways without the governors’ influences.
Blueprint learnt that General Buhari had asked one of the governors from the South who had gone to submit his own list whether he (Buhari) could select his commissioners for him; a question the said governor could not provide an answer to.
Just last week, the APC governors held a retreat in Abuja where it came up with strategy on programmes of implementation.
It would be also recalled that it was alleged that the governors had earlier submitted a ministerial list to the president-elect.
The source speaking further stated that party was trying to structure a party like that of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), where National Executive Council (NEC) was more empowered than governors.