The National Chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP),Prof Ahmed Rufai Alkali, has said that the ministers who are still holding on to their ministerial portfolio while still nursing political ambition are taking President Mohammad Buhari for granted.
According to Prof. Alkali, a four time Commissioner in Gombe State and former National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), no minister is supposed to hold on to his position and be collecting money from the federal account while pursuing personal political ambition. He said, “the message is that in this country, anything goes and anything can happen. The office of the Central Bank of Nigeria governor is very sensitive. The moment his name was mentioned, if I were the one, I would have approached the President and say, they are mentioning my name about election, but I am not part of you. But if he goes to the President to say they are mention my name and I am interested, the President will tell him ok, go ahead because he will never stop anyone. It is because they all take the President for granted that they can do anything they feel like doing.
When he told them to resign, some of them don’t want to do that. Do you want to be a Minister until you finish the election and continue to collect money from the ministries to serve your purpose? The President took the right decision by asking them to resign. Now some of them don’t want to resign. The President should insist that the party should not give them their money. In fact, they should charge them for wasting the party time.
