Nigeria: Ministerial Appointments - Buhari Too Cavalier About Governance

18 July 2019

President Muhammadu Buhari is insouciant about the process of government, the art and mechanics of governance. Otherwise, how else would one explain his lackadaisical approach to ministerial appointments and his aberrant views about the role of ministers?

As everyone knows, Buhari spent the first six months of his first presidential term without a cabinet, without ministers! Now, déjà vu, he is nearly three months into his second term and still hasn't named his ministers; instead, he is saying to Nigerians: "Give me more time"! But what is it about ministers that President Buhari always struggles to appoint them?

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