September Running Too Fast And Putting Me Under Pressure To Appoint Ministers- Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari today admitted that the month of September is running too fast for his liking and as such putting him under pressure to keep to his promise of naming his cabinet ministers before the month runs out.

Stating this during an interview with French television station, France 24 on Wednesday, Buhari noted that the absence of a finance minister was not in any way affecting the Nigerian capital market and economy. His words “No. It is what we know –and which we learnt from the western system. The civil service provides the continuity, the technocrat. And in any case, they are those that do most of the work.

“The ministers are there, I think, to make a lot of noise; for the politicians to make a lot of noise. But the work is being done by the technocrats. They are there; they have to provide the continuity, dig into the records and then guide us, [those of us] who are just coming in.

“They have been there, some of them for 15 years, some for 20 years. So I think this question of ministers is political. People from different constituencies want to see their people directly in government, and see what they can get out of it. As for the cabinet, I said we will have one by the end of the month, and time flies. The end of the month is coming too quickly for my liking.

“Yeah, I will stick to it. I will send the names to the national assembly. When you started introducing me, you said I was around 1983 to 1985. Even then we had ministers. So under this system, we have to have ministers; and we are going to have ministers.”