President Muhammadu Buhari allegedly doesn’t consider the immediate former governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Fashola and his Rivers state counterpart, Rotimi Amaechi for ministerial appointment.
According to the sources of the Street Journal President Buhari was said this to their faces in one of the All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus meetings held before his swearing-in on May 29, Friday.
However Buhari didn’t give any reasons to justify his decision.
It seems that Fashola and Amaechi have become the first causalities’ of President Buhari’s ‘no nonsense’ style of ruling.
The two ex-governors were at the lead of the insistent “change campaign” that saw Buhari appeared victorious in the March 28, 2015 presidential poll where Amaechi even served as PMB campaign director.
It was collected that this decision may not be separate from the large sub-national outside debts experienced by Lagos state and Rivers state under the watch of Fashola and Amaechi.
Under the former governor, Lagos state administration indebted $1.02bn which signifies 33.86 % of the country’s total sub-national external debts leaving the remaining 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory with $1.99bn as of June 30, 2014.
Rivers governor was also blamed for dropping state into massive external indebtedness by a coalition of non-governmental organisations interested in transparency and responsibility in governance.
It should be noted that in the lists of supposed ministers, which were circulating in the media, Fashola was supposed as AGF/Minister of Justice, while earlier he was predicted as minister of works and housing.
Amaechi was set to head the incoming APC government’s cabinet as Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
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