The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Adamu, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to carry the leadership of the party along in forming his cabinet.
Mr Adamu made the appeal during a meeting between the national leadership of the party and APC state chairmen in Abuja on Monday.
He said: “Every APC member has an inherent right to hope to get some patronage. And we can all get one here. We cannot all be ministers of the government.
“We cannot all end up as board members, directors of parastatals and MDAs across the country. We do expect some patronage from the government that we are forming.
“The president has just started. And he is doing his extensive consultation before coming up with his nominees for ministers. The nomination of the ministers will come first.
“They will go through their screening until they are pronounced after they have been submitted before Mr. President. And Mr President will formally appoint his ministers and swear them in.
“Only after doing that will he disclose each of them to the country to know which minister is going to which ministry. And how many ministries we are going to have. After that is done, the ministers assume office and make a comprehensive report starting from all the ministries.
“And MDAs under them. Before we are going to know what vacancies exist for chief executives, directors and part time directors.
“These are some of the exercises that will take place within the next two months. It cannot happen by next week but certainly that is what we should be expecting.
“It is our hope and prayers that Mr. President will come along with us in that regard and strengthen the relationship of the party in the states and at the national level will enjoy some level of patronage in the new government. Those are the key issues that we do hope to share with you in the course of this meeting.”
On the state of the party, the national chairman said while APC governors were the leaders of the party in their respective states, the party chairmen ran the party on a daily basis.
He added that an atmosphere of understanding between the chairmen, the governors, and members of the National Working Committee, NWC, would go a long way in enhancing good leadership of the party.
According to him, there would also be good understanding, “if you do know which way we are going at the national level so that we can all hope and go in the same direction with you.”
While noting that the ruling party has 20 governors, Mr Adamu expressed optimism that the party would win the three off-season governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states.
