APC Leaders to Ratify Ministers That Will Work for Buhari

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress will ratify the list of persons to be appointed into the Federal Executive Council before presentation to the National Assembly. It was learnt in Abuja on Wednesday that party leaders were seeking to restore the party supremacy which some alleged was lost during the 16 years that the Peoples Democratic Party held sway in Nigeria. "We are looking at a situation where the party will direct the affairs of government in line with our manifesto. Recall that this was largely the case during the second republic. “But since 1999, what we have seen is the rise of individuals whose personal interests took precedence over the general interest of the party and the people. “The APC cannot afford to let this happen because we have a social contract with the Nigerian people who voted for the party based on the promise to bring about change in the polity.” A leader of the party told Punch that APC is working to avoid pitfalls that led to the collapse of the PDP. According to him, under APC administration, there is no way the President’s wife would have the latitude to meddle in the party affairs to the extent of dictating who got appointed and who did not. He said, “This time around, the party will make an input into how its elected public office holders conduct the business of delivering on promises made, because we, as a party, will share in their success and will also share in the blame, should they fail.”