CoS: Buhari degraded ministerial portfolios to clerical aides – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said President Muhammadu
Buhari has degraded ministerial portfolios to clerical aides by
directing the ministers to report to his Chief of Staff, Mallam
Abba Kyari.

Such demotion, according to the party, is counter-productive and
reduces governance to a domestic affair.

PDP in a statement Wednesday by the National Publicity
Secretary, Kola Ologbondiya, said President Buhari has demonstrated
a lack of required capacity to lead a nation as complex as Nigeria
especially at this trying times.

It described the appointed ministers as “a poor parade of
recycled foot-travelers, many of whom have failed Nigerians in
governance assignments,” adding that the president “had no
clear-cut blueprint to rescue the nation from the economic,
security and social quagmires which his administration had plunged
our nation into in the last four years.

“At a ceremony where Nigerians had expected the forceful
articulation of a progressive policy thrust, Mr. President bored
the nation with an empty and directionless script that only evoked
more despondency in our nation.

“Instead of helping President Buhari to offer hope, his handlers
were more interested on photo-ups and refreshments, away from
serous business of governance.”

The party stated that in assembling a team made up of alleged
persons indicted for corruption and treasury looting, President
Buhari has demonstrated that he has nothing to offer to the
nation.

PDP said it feels the pains and anguish of Nigerians, who by now
would have been enjoying the benefits of the much-desired economic
recovery blueprint articulated by its presidential candidate, Atiku
Abubakar.