This Week on Change: Buhari will pick no minister until he needs no minister

It is possible that I am the one who is not understanding this rightly, but the message as clearly as I get it coming from the presidency is that President Muhammad Buhari will not appoint a cabinet until he has finished eradicating Boko Haram. Not only that, he will still wait till he has fixed our economy to the desired status and have fought corruption to a halt and then succeed in returning all our stolen billions. After doing these, then we can have ministers join our president.
The part where I am quite confused is that in a normal world, one would expect that achieving all these target was what a president needs a cabinet for. If you can and have successfully done all these above listed goals, then why would he need a cabinet afterwards?
Senior Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu made this known to newsmen after an extensive meeting with the president yesterday.
"It is about security. That is his number one campaign agenda and he is living up to it. He has concentrated all his energy trying to put together a credible response to Boko Haram terrorists. And this has taken him to the neighboring countries. He has met Defence Chief, the Service Chiefs almost every week. He has also taken this to G7, also to the African Union. He has been trying to form a massive alliance, a massive response to the Boko Haram terrorists.
"Besides that, he is also restrategizing also for the economic revival of the country and the coming of foreign investment, again using the platform provided by the G7 and the United States of America. And then, you can see that he has started making moves about the recovery of the stolen billions of dollars by some Nigerians that are recoverable. So, he is actually working without making so much noise on the fulfilment of his election promises."

So much political and administrative novelty is obviously expected in this masquerade dance called "Change" today and this could be one of them; an administration without a cabinet. It's strange but not impossible and it won't even be a miracle if it worked. Right now, the president has so much political capital that he could have breakfast, lunch and dinner on it for fifty lifetimes. If the president sent a troop to raid and destroy a entire town today, those who survive it would agree it was for the good of Nigeria. Because right now we believe President Buhari is the only Nigerian who is righteous and incorruptible to know and do the right thing for Nigeria. We sense that even in the tone of his SSA. "As he has said himself, he wants to scrutinized and make the right kind of appointment. He doesn't want to appoint one today and make changes tomorrow. Given this war for the recovery of stolen funds, that will have implication for the people who are going to be appointed. If he appoints you today and may be in the drive, you are implicated, he will fire you."
Meaning he doesn't trust any one among all the change chorus singers that ushered him into Aso Rock.
As so many Nigerians are, I don't care how he wants to do it, fix Nigeria is all I want him to do, and fix it I believe he will do.

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