The national Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for Monday’s sacking of 26 directors-general and chief executive officers of parastatals and agencies of government.
Speaking, Oyegun said the sacked DGs presided over parastatals where a lot of “internal sabotage” against the government of the day was going.
“APC members are not concerned about the positions; we are concerned about the internal sabotage that is going on in a lot of the PDP-filled positions, which are critical to our national growth and development,” he told state house correspondents at the presidential villa on Tuesday while leading some members of the APC national working committee to a meeting with the president.
“It is happening in INEC; it is happening in a lot of other institutions and that is what the concern of the party is, not necessarily taking over. We should take over and they should be people who believe in the change agenda; we have no apologies for that at all.”
He also defended the president on controversies about the 2016 budget, saying that arriving at the document was a complicated process.
“There is absolutely no confusion. This is a serious issue,” he said.
“I want you to please understand the complications that come from adjusting a structure from over 40 ministries to just over 20 ministries and the necessary adjustments of figures and movements of institutions that this entails.
“It was very complicated, so it is natural that adjustments have to be made to the process and that is just is happening.”
Babachir Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation, announced the sack without explaining the president’s action.
