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<\/p>\nRecall that at the end of a two-day retreat organicsed for Ministers designate and senior government officials, President Buhari had ordered the incoming Ministers to submit any request meant for him to his Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari and all executive matters to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the controversies generated by the new directive, the Presidency, in a statement forwarded to DAILY POST by Buhari Spokesman, Garba Shehu, said \u201crecent media and social media reports on the responsibilities of the Chief of Staff to the President have suggested that the role has changed. This is not the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, under the Buhari II administration the role of Chief of Staff remains the same as it was under Buhari I.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is worth stressing that the role and responsibilities of the Chief of Staff and the method of communication and arranging scheduling between Cabinet members and the President are, in Nigeria, based on the US model, where the same system operates \u2013 and has done for decades \u2013 in precisely the same way.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat role is to act as the head of the presidential administration at Aso Rock; to be an adviser to the President on any and all matters; to be the line manager for all staff at Aso Rock; and to manage appointments and scheduling for the President.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the traditional presidential system, it is a primary function of a Chief of Staff, which may vary according to the needs and desires of each President, to supervise key State House Staff, control access to the office and the person of the President, manage communications and information flow and this includes that which binds the relationship with the two other arms of government.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the President\u2019s first term those were the responsibilities of the Chief of Staff, and they remain the same responsibilities today. There is no change.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen President Buhari explained to ministers that they would be expected to communicate with him and arrange scheduling to meet with him primarily via the Chief of Staff, he did so as many of the Buhari II Cabinet ministerial appointments are new appointments and cannot therefore be expected to know how matters of liaising with the President operate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is to stress that access to the President is open to ministers. It is not true that this is denied them in the Second Term.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) on the other hand is responsible for ensuring the effective coordination and monitoring of the implementation of government policies and programmes. All cabinet matters must go through him.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder this dispensation, a performance evaluation of ministers and Permanent Secretary will be maintained by the SGF. Two weeks after assuming office, they are expected to sign mandate acceptance documents.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is time to end the unnecessary controversy, for the key appointees of the President to carry out their jobs.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Presidency on Saturday cleared the air on the responsibilities of the President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, and that of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha. Recall that at the end of a two-day retreat organicsed for Ministers designate and senior government officials, President Buhari had ordered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146554,"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":[8806,3702],"class_list":["post-146553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abba-kyari","tag-boss-mustapha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146553","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=146553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}