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APPOINTMENT: WHEN PRESIDENT BUHARI WILL ANNOUNCE MINISTERS REVEALED (READ DETAIL)
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Afnews Editor
Jun 28, 2019
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss
Mustapha has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari will unveil his cabinet
in July.
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Mustapha made the disclosure while explaining that the delay
was to allow the National Assembly complete its leadership processes and
lawmakers resume from recess.
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He made the disclosure in an interview with The Guardian on
the sidelines of the just-concluded meetings of the African Export-Import Bank
in Moscow.
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The SGF assured that Buhari will place the issue before the
National Assembly as quickly as possible.
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He said: "Our system is unique. We have an executive system
where your membership of a parliament denies you the opportunity of being a
minister, unless you resign from parliament.
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"Mr. President is working on his list or must have concluded.
He mentioned in his Democracy Day broadcast that he is going to assemble
competent Nigerians to help him implement his programmes.
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"He was inaugurated on May 29. We had the Democracy Day
celebration on June 12. It was a choked-up programme as we had to work towards
the emergence of the leadership of the National Assembly because there is
nothing you can do if their leadership does not emerge.
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"So far, we have part of the leadership that has emerged.
The other part will emerge after they return from their recess. They are
reconvening on July 2 and it is when they reconvene that we expect they will
finish other complements of their leadership.
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"There are other key officers needed in the introduction of
an executive bill. You don't go directly to the Senate President; you only
write to him. It is the Majority Leader, who represents the party in the Senate
that has the responsibility of introducing the bill, and he has received the
list too.
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"I believe that within the month of July, he will submit the list. It is then up to the Senate to do the needful and conclude the exercise. I keep emphasising that if you have a very good leadership in the National Assembly, these things can be finished in a period of one week or two."
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