As an avid strategies to reduce the high cost of governance in Nigeria, President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari is reportedly considering reducing the number of ministers in the Federal Executive Council.
The source learnt that this formed part of the cost-saving proposals which Buhari presented to his party’s (All Progressives Congress – APC ) National Working Committee (NWC) yesterday.
According to a high-ranking member of the APC NWC the proposal includes streamlining the ministries and parastatals.
The NWC member said, “No concrete decision has been reached on any of the issues yet. We are still meeting tomorrow.”
The meeting, which was chaired by the party’s National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, also reviewed the just-concluded general elections, the deadlock in the Taraba State governorship poll as well as the alleged electoral fraud in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Lai Mohammed, who spoke to journalists during a short break by the committee, confirmed that the NWC reviewed the governorship election.
When asked to comment on the proposals made by Buhari on streamlining the ministries and parastatals, he dismissed the question.
Mohammed said, “I think you have been listening to a lot of gossip; nothing like that was discussed. All we discussed was to make recommendations into the transition committee; how the government should hit the ground running and what should be the immediate, mid-term and long term policies of the incoming government. So, all these issues of ministers and MDAs, are your own imagination”.
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