Anxiety Mounts as FG’s Board Appointees Await Inauguration

Segun Atanda/

The Federal Government has been urged to inaugurate its appointed board chairmen and members recently named in a controversial list before it’s again too late for some of them to serve.

The list, which took about 2 ½ years to compile, found some of the appointees already dead and buried when it was eventually released.

One of the appointees who spoke on condition of anonymity expressed fears that more people on the list might die as time ticks away while waiting for the inauguration.

Following inquiries at the Presidency today, NewsmakersNG was told that the inauguration would hold ‘soon’.

The list of President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointees released by the Secretary to the Federal Government, Mr Boss Mustapha, on December 29, 2017, contained 209 board chairmen and 1,258 members of government owned agencies and parastatals.

NewsmakersNG learnt that in 2015, when President Muhammadu Buhari requested all state chapters of the party to submit names of 50 party members for board appointments, the names were compiled by the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and forwarded to the then secretary to the government of the federation, Mr Babachir Lawal.

Complaints, however, arose from some governors who felt they were not carried along in the process, thereby forcing the president to constitute a committee under the vice president to review and reflect the interest of the governors.

Action was allegedly delayed on the report of the committee headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo when President Buhari took ill.

Names on the list included renowned technocrat and former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Timipere Alaibe; former Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr Bukhari Bello; former Lagos State deputy governor, Mr Femi Pedro; boardroom guru, Otunba Seyi Oduntan, and a celebrated reformer and passionate campaigner for improved police welfare – retired Commissioner of Police (CP) Olayinka Balogun.

Read the full list here:Board Chairmen and members

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