LAGOS — THE shape and faces to the
Muhammadu Buhari administration will begin to unfold today baring any last
minute change of mind by the president, Vanguard has learnt. Among those to be
named are the Chief of Staff, Secretary to the Government of the Federation,
SGF and personal staff of the president and the vice-president.
Yesterday, the president requested
the Senate to approve 15 special advisers for him. Meanwhile, the delay in the
announcement of senior officials of the new administration, it was learnt
yesterday, flowed from the delay by the former officials of Goodluck
Jonathan administration in forwarding their handover notes to the transition
committee constituted by Buhari.
Sources close to the President and
the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, disclosed yesterday that the
president would make known the senior officials of his government today.
Besides the Chief of Staff and SGF, other officials to be named may include the
Special Adviser to the National Assembly, Political Adviser among senior aides
of the president.
“The announcements will be made
today baring a last minute change of decision,” a source privy to the
development told Vanguard last night even as he added that the president’s
scheduled trip to Niger and Chad may be the only factors that may delay
the announcement. Meanwhile, a senior associate of the president yesterday
traced the delay in the announcement of the president’s senior aides to the
delay in the transmission of the handover notes by the Jonathan officials
to the transition team constituted by Buhari ahead of his inauguration.
“All we have been doing since Friday
is poring over these notes. This is because you need to know the position of
things before you delegate the appropriate personnel to any establishment
of government,” a source privy to the ongoing developments told Vanguard last
night.
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