The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Chief
John Odigie-Oyegun said the party leadership was not involved in the
compilation of the controversial list of appointees into the boards of federal
agencies.
He explained that this led to the embarrassing situation
which the government was dealing with.
He said the party was initially contacted and it asked state
chapters to submit 50 names each to be considered for such appointments.
He said the list was not submitted to the party secretariat
but to a presidential committee headed by the sacked Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.
He said, “It is pretty obvious that the party was not
involved in the final stages of the compilation of that list. Yes, at the
initial stage and I am talking about two years ago, we demanded that every
state makes 50 nominations which was duly sent to the committee set up for the
purpose at that time.
“Since then, a lot had happened. People have changed
parties, people have died, we have had three new governors who were not there
when the original list was compiled and so it was clear that there was a need
for us to look at the final outcome.”
He noted that if the party leadership was involved in the
final stage, some of the obvious errors would not have been made.
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