The Federal Government is set to release the names of board members of federal agencies, boards and ministries.
This follows last minute fine-tuning of the lists of the nominees by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on the instruction of President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure lasting peace over the contentious issue.
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It was learned that the list would be tampered with to accommodate the interests of all the key stakeholders to ensure continued party unity and cohesion, especially as the next round of electioneering is likely to kick off in a subtle way this year.
According to Vanguard, the list of nominees already sent in by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF) has been adjusted to take care of all interest groups.
A source confirmed that the intervention of the president followed complaints by governors and other party big-wigs that they were not consulted by the OSGF before the list was compiled.
The OSGF under existing tradition compiles the names of chairmen and members of boards of Ministries, Agencies and Departments, MDAs, on the direction of the presidency to reflect the interests of those who supported the making of the government.
However, it was gathered, yesterday, that the furore generated by governors and top officials of All Progressives Congress, APC, that they were schemed out of the nominations for boards of key parastatals, forced the Presidency to recall the list for what a source described as ‘further action.’
The presidency had earlier denied reports that President Buhari would make full board appointments in January 2017.
Presidential spokesperson Garba Shehu in a statement on Thursday, December 29, 2015, said that there was no truth in the reports making the rounds about fresh appointments coming up early this year.
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