IN my article here this past Monday entitled: Buhari And Other Ministers: Random Musings, I touched briefly on this issue but because of its increased topicality I have decided to bring it back today for a more detailed interrogation.
Since President Muhammadu Buhari announced his intention to head the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, the Nigerian marketplace of ideas has been vibrating with people's reactions to it. The questions are as follows: Does he have the right under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, to do so? The other resting on political correctness says, should he? My answer to both is: No.
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