The national chairman of ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) Abdullahi Adamu has expressed optimism that President Bola Tinubu will carry the leadership of the party along in his ministerial appointments.
Adamu made this remark during a meeting with APC state chairmen at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Monday.
According to him , the essence of the meeting was to brief the state chairmen on the preparation of forthcoming National Executive Committee (NEC), meeting scheduled for July 19.
He said “The fact that we are going to have our first National Executive Committee, NEC since the election of 2023. And it will be the first our president, and commander in chief of the Armed Forces, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be attending with his Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima.
“We thought it necessary to sit with chiefs executives of states and the leadership of our states for our party in various stares. We had a very fruitful and one of the longest meeting with the governors. And what we find most encouraging is their attitudes.
“Every APC member has an inherent right to hope, to get some patronage. And we can all get one here. We cannot all be ministers of the government. We cannot all end up as board members, directors of parastatals and MDAs across the country. That we do expect some patronage from the government that we are forming.
“The President has just started and he is doing his extensive consultation before coming up with his nominees for Ministers. The nomination of the Ministers will come first. They will go through their screening until they are pronounced after they have been submitted before Mr. President and Mr President will formally appoint his Ministers and swear them in.
“Only after doing that will he disclose each of them to the country to know which Minister is going to which ministry. And how many ministry we are going to have. After that is done, the Ministers assume office and make a comprehensive report starting from all the ministry. And MDAs under them. Before we are going to know what vacancies exist of Chief executives, directors and part time directors.
These are some of the exercise that will take place with the next two months. It cannot happen by next week but certainly that is what we should be expecting.
“It is our hope and prayers that Mr. President will come along with us in that regard and strengthen the relationship of the party in the states and at the National level will enjoy some level of patronage in the new government. Those are the key issues that we do hope to share with you in the course of this meeting,” he said