Nigeria’s President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), says his Cabinet would be made up of people with requisite experience and committed technocrats.
He said his choice of Cabinet members would stimulate the incoming administration towards delivering good governance that would meet the aspirations of Nigerians.
General Buhari was speaking at a meeting with northern leaders in Abuja on Sunday.
He said his administration would give priority to education, employment creation and security.
The President-elect would be sown-in on May 29 and is expected to present a list containing the names of his cabinet members days after.
He had, however, stressed the need for Nigerians to be patient with his administration, saying they would work hard to actualise the promises made during the campaigns of the All Progressives Congress.
While outlining the incoming government’s tasks few days ago, the Vice-President-elect, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, had put the graduate unemployment rate in Nigeria at 80 per cent and the general unemployment rate at over 40 per cent.
General Buhari won the March 28 presidential election, defeating the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan.
In addition to what our president elect said with regar to his cabinet. Nigeria also need a better grassroots community economic regeneration team. A grassroots local, regional and national stakeholders that will oversee direct implementation of policies and ensure effective impacts/monitoring programme. Setup local stakeholders with sit /direct access to the national cabinet, before embarking on few major infrastructure redevelopment and regeneration that engage local resident and oversee by the stakeholders for meaningful outcomes. As we already know infrastructure redevelopment such as Train/railway, Tubes, orbital ring roads, resorts, housing schemes always have a multiplayer effects of it is strategically implement to enable better platform for income and revenue raising potentials for all
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