{"id":135209,"date":"2019-07-12T14:19:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135209"},"modified":"2019-07-12T14:19:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:19:40","slug":"buhari-under-tremendous-pressure-to-release-ministerial-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135209","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Under Tremendous Pressure To Release Ministerial List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Muslims-Marginalised-In-Security-Agencies-Supreme-Council-for-Shari\u2019ah-Laments.png\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI am very much aware of it (ministerial list) and I am under tremendous pressure on it,\u201d Nigeria\u2019s President Muhammadu Buhari has said.<\/p>\n<p>President Buhari added, \u201cThe last cabinet which I had, most of them, a majority of them I didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to accept their names and recommendation from the party. I worked with them for three and a half years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, a former military dictator, had delayed for months the release of the list of ministers in his first term as a democratically-elected head of state.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the leadership of the National Assembly during a dinner on Thursday night in Abuja, the President said he was under pressure to unveil his ministerial nominees.<\/p>\n<p>His dawdling at making public the cabinet list, some of his critics have argued is a cause for concern and an indication that he is under the \u2018spell\u2019 of a cabal in the Presidential Villa.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, however, has repeatedly denied such an allegation, claiming he is his own man.<\/p>\n<p>The President, however, explained that the delay was to nominate people he knows personally and can work with.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am very much aware of it (ministerial list) and I am under tremendous pressure on it,\u201d Nigeria\u2019s President Muhammadu Buhari has said. President Buhari added, \u201cThe last cabinet which I had, most of them, a majority of them I didn\u2019t know. \u201cI had to accept their names and recommendation from the party. I worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,41,12727],"class_list":["post-135209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apc","tag-buhari","tag-ministerial-nominee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}