Appoint technocrats to regain good will APC chieftain, Tells Buhari

A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State Ebi Beredugo has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to reshuffle his cabinet and appoint technocrats into key positions in order to bring about the change promised by the party.

Beredugo who spoke to our correspondent in a telephone interview on Wednesday argued that most of the politicians on the cabinet of the present administration have outlived their usefulness and must go.

He said, “The president must tinker with his cabinet. He must bring in technocrats. He must use technocrats to steer the country to the next level.

“I want to say that the politicians who are surrounding the president, he has kept those people around for too long and they are not making any headway. It’s time the country brings in technocrats”.

The fiery legal practitioner said there is erroneous notion that it’s the politicians that would work and return the president for a second term. “No, the goodwill of Nigerians will bring you for second term, not those politicians who deep down have lost touch even with their grassroots.

“It is not those politicians that can deliver for the president; we must get this clear because they are separated even from their grassroots.

They can’t even deliver their states. They can only use federal might to come and cause confusion because they cannot actually deliver their states.

“So why not bring in technocrats, let Nigerians feel the change in their lives. Let Nigerians begin to enjoy the dividends of good governance”, he counselled.

Beredugo stressed that from the way the present administration has carried on; it has lost much of the goodwill that earned it the support of Nigerians in 2015.

“Can we actually and sincerely say if an election holds right now today, can we actually say president Buhari will win? Does he still have the goodwill of Nigerians to believe in him that we are making progress?

“Are we making progress in the anti corruption fight, why should we enter 2018 without reshuffling his cabinet?”, the lawyer asked rhetorically.

He averred that the mix up in the appointment of persons into the board of parastatals is a pointer that the Buhari team is not up to their game.

He wondered why a list of appointees that was compiled since 2015 was not vetted before it was finally released.

“Even though we support this government, sometimes we are ashamed of the things that come out from the presidency. How can you be creating a board for a parastatal that is not supposed to have a board or for privatized companies?

“So even the president is still operating from a very wrong perspective and these are things in civilized societies, heads are supposed to be rolling and people are not supposed to wait for their heads to roll but tender their resignation letters even before time.

“But it is Nigeria and anything can happen. So we now have people that are in their graves made board members. I hope they will give their family members their sitting allowances”, he demanded.

Chris Eze, Yenagoa