By John Oba
Abuja
After President Muhammadu Buhari apologised during the last National Executive Council meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja for dissolving the governing council of Universities along with boards of parastatal, agencies, in addition to the sack of the 13 vice-chancellors, the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations has called for the sack of the Minister of Education, Mr. Adamu Adamu, for “misinforming the president.”
This is even as it said the Executive Council members of the coalition after meeting had decided to withdraw from the Industrial Court a suit (NIC/ABJ/64/2016) filed against the Federal Ministry of Education in respect to the matter.
The group, in a letter signed by the president, Comrade Etuk Bassey Williams and the secretary general, Abubakar Ibrahim to President Buhari, yesterday, in Abuja, commended the President for rescinding the order that led to the anomaly.
It said the Minister and all those who had been found “culpable either remotely, directly or otherwise in misinforming you into taking the action that led to this constitutional breach be made to take full responsibility through immediate resignation or sack so that those who are by any chance still in doubt as to your tenacity to rid Nigeria of bad governance will be totally convinced of your uncompromising stance.”
The statement said: “This is our own way of saying thank you for yielding to the voices of several stakeholders who appealed to you to revisit your decision, which though taken in good faith but known to all Nigerians to be predicated on the wrong counsel of an overvaulting public officer in the person of Mr. Adamu Adamu.
“While your decision to reverse an action that was taken in error is highly commendable, it is noteworthy that the constant embarrassment brought to your government by those who believe that it is still business as usual be ruthlessly addressed so that it can serve as deterrent to others. This is one embarrassment too many by charlatans who are yet to understand that this change which is sweeping through all facets of the Nigerian society has truly come to stay.”