{"id":11730,"date":"2019-06-20T13:57:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11730"},"modified":"2019-06-20T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:57:30","slug":"ministerial-appointment-buhari-under-fire-over-delay-in-constituting-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ministerial-appointment-buhari-under-fire-over-delay-in-constituting-cabinet","title":{"rendered":"Ministerial appointment: Buhari under fire over delay in constituting cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over his delay in constituting the cabinet to serve in his second term.<\/p>\n<p>Afenifere\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin described Buhari\u2019s delay in appointing Ministers as worrisome.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, Odumakin said: \u201cI think that what is going on, 21 days (after the inauguration) and no announcement made yet, is worrisome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is worrisome because when you look at South Africa when President Cyril Ramaphosa came into power recently, it didn\u2019t take him a week to have his cabinet in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Afenifere\u2019s spokesperson also faulted President Buhari\u2019s process of retaining some appointees.<\/p>\n<p>He wondered why the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, the Chief of Staff to President, Abba Kyari and presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu among others have retained their positions without being reappointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the appointment that does not require going to the Senate is not being made and old people continue to function in a way that is not so legal, it gives (cause for some worry).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the President himself did not rely on the oath he took in 2015, he had to take a new oath,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over his delay in constituting the cabinet to serve in his second term. 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Featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, Odumakin said: \u201cI think that what is going on, 21 days (after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[97,378,177,158],"class_list":["post-11730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-cabinet","tag-politics","tag-presidency"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ministerial appointment: Buhari under fire over delay in constituting cabinet - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ministerial-appointment-buhari-under-fire-over-delay-in-constituting-cabinet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ministerial appointment: Buhari under fire over delay in constituting cabinet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over his delay in constituting the cabinet to serve in his second term. 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