In an interview granted to Channel TV and Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) in New Delhi, India, President Buhari clearly hinted that his government and Nigeria cannot afford to pay 42 Ministers but has drafted nominees from all the 36 states as stipulated in our constitution.
He further stressed that not all screened Minister nominees will have portfolio but will definitely be part of his cabinet.
In his words:
"We can not work outside constitution there must be a cabinet representative from each state.
‘There use to be forty two minister but I think we can nearly keep have half of that now because we can not afford it. Other may not be substantive ministers but they will seat in the cabinet because that is what the constitution said and we can’t operate outside the constitution
We are reducing the number of ministries we can’t afford to pay".
Information from Vanguardngr was used in this report.
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