» Buhari’s ministerial list to be ratified by APC

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.
A prominent northern leader of the party, who
pleaded for anonymity because of the sensitivity of
the issue, said the APC was working to avoid the
pitfalls which led to the collapse of the PDP.
He said, "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."
According to him, under the 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."
In an interview with The PUNCH, a leading member of
the party and former governor of old Abia State, Dr.
Ogbonnaya Onu, said as a party, the APC would be
guided by the constitution.
While responding to a question as to how members
of the cabinet would emerge, Onu said the APC was a
party which was determined to do things differently
to ensure that Nigerians get value from government.
He said, "In forming government, you have to make
consultations with the party. We are a party of
change, we are a party that is looking forward to
building a Nigeria that many of the problems we have
today will be solved, and we can't do things the way
they were done before; knowing that the way they
were done before didn't give the results that were
desired."