President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the clamor for the appointment of ministers is political as people from various constituencies want to see their own people in governance in order to see what they can get.
He told French Television yesterday in France that civil servants and technocrats are more involved in the process of governance as they actually do most of the work while ministers are only there to make a lot of noise.
Defending his delay in assembling his cabinet, President Buhari insisted that the civil service was providing the needed continuity.
He said ;
“The civil service provides the continuity, the technocrats . And in any case, they are the people who do most of the work. The ministers are there, I think, to make a lot of noise, for the politicians to make a lot of noise. But the work is being done by the technocrats. They are there, they have to provide the continuity, dig into the records and then guide (those of us) who are just coming in.
“They have been there, some of them for 15 years, some for 20 years. So I think this question of ministers is political. People from different constituencies want to see their people directly in government, and see what they can get out of it.”
Buhari assured that he would stick to his pledge to compose his cabinet before the end of September.
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