APC will be more involved in Buhari’s appointments- Oyegun

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the party would henceforth participate more actively in subsequent appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari and apply the principle of party supremacy, following the outrage that followed the president’s latest alleged lopsided appointments. Oyegun told THISDAY on Saturday in Abuja that the party was “marginally involved” in the president’s recent appointments, though it was his prerogative to appoint his personal staff. Buhari drew the ire of many across the country on Thursday when he released a list of six new key appointees, which was widely criticised as the accentuation of an uneven geopolitical distribution of appointments since his inauguration on May 29. Odigie-Oyegun, while reacting to the widespread criticisms over the appointments, said, “It is too early and superficial to say the appointments were lopsided; it is too early. We are just a little over two months into the government. The appointments made so far are personal staff members of the president. And it is his prerogative to make those appointments.”