The forthcoming Gen. Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government will, like
the current administration, parade many women believed to be influential.
The outgoing administration of President
Goodluck Jonathan boasts of an array of influential women, who command
much respect even among their male counterparts. Apart from the
President’s wife, Dame Patience Jonathan, who pundit say is always
interested in official matters and those who get elective and appointive
positions, it is believed that the influence of the Minister of
Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, made Jonathan’s administration
popular.
The two ministers currently head sensitive ministries in Jonathan’s government.
Likewise, the inauguration of Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s new President on May 29 will throw up
another set of influential women. Some of the women were believed to
have invested their energy in the March 28 pre-election campaigns in
which the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate won.
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has said the hate campaigns against Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari by President Goodluck Jonathan’s team, played a huge part in the party’s woeful outing during the last general elections.
It also accused close associates of Jonathan, who handled his campaign of shutting out the party leadership from the campaign.National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday.He explained that the erroneous belief by the Jonathan campaign team that it could denigrate a respected statesman revered in the North, instead on dwelling on issues, cost the party critical votes in parts of the North.The incoming administration of the President-elect, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is set to revisit the reports of panels set up by the National Assembly to investigate various financial scandals in Federal Government’s agencies and ministries.
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