Why APC Members, Loyalists May Not Get Board Appointments (INVESTIGATION)

. Kennedy Opara, PDP Board Chairmen, members Now Change Mantra Compliant

BY KEN EMETCHETA, ABUJA

Members of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC seeking for federal Board appointments may have to wait for a while.

The scramble for Board appointments has been intense in the party with many party members, loyalists wondering why the appointments are being delayed by the presidency.

This online newspaper had reported that the 36 State chapters of the APC were instructed to compile names of loyal party members for consideration for board appointments.

The matter generated so much controversy in the States as some party members alleged that some State Governors and  party chairmen connived to nominate their friends, relatives and associates for board appointments in federal government run parastastals  and agencies

A committee was set up by the federal Government headed by Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal in collaboration with the APC national Chairman, John Odigie Oyegun to review the nominations.

Despite the review, it appears the appointments may not be in sight, INNONEWS.COM gathered.

Most of the boards are made up of members of the PDP appointed during the Jonathan administration.

President Buhari had sacked 28 board chairmen of federal boards and parastatals leaving over 300 mainly those loyal to the PDP.

According to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Medi, Garba Shehu in an interview with a national daily  on Monday, March 28, 2016, he said “those who have accepted the change mantra and have adjusted to the new political environment are getting on with their jobs”

 He  used the Executive Secretary of the Christian Pilgrims  Commission, John Kennedy Opara  as a clear example, stating that despite his closeness to former President Goodluck Jonathan, "this administration decided to retain him  and others because those who were sacked by President Buhari  had become irredeemably unchangeable that they were immune to the change mantra”

Shehu continued “Those who have accepted the change mantra and have adjusted to the new political environment are getting on with their jobs. I m sure a lot of our party people would be disappointed, but that is the way the President is, he wants to give everybody fair chance bearing in mind that you are a Nigerian first before belonging to any political party.

“If you are contributing to the country in your place of work, you don’t have to be fired simply because you don’t’ agree that the APC should be in place" Shehu reportedly said.