In spite of the criticisms by the opposition, attempts made to get the reaction of the President’s media managers did not yield fruit.
An inquiry mail sent to Adesina and the Senior Special Assistant to Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, was not responded to as of the time of filing this report on Thursday night.
Buhari is also set to hold a valedictory session for members of the Federal Executive Council on May 22, less than a week to his inauguration for a second term on May 29.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, disclosed this while speaking to State House Correspondents at the end of Thursday’s FEC meeting in Abuja.
Mohammed stated that the cabinet would be intact until May 22 when the President would host the ministers to a valedictory session.
“We will be having a valedictory session on May 22. The cabinet remains intact,” he added.
Recall that the ministers were a week earlier directed to submit “status reports on policies, programmes and projects” under their watch by Wednesday, April 24, preparatory to the winding down of the first term of the President.”
Mohammed said the fact that the valedictory session of the federal cabinet would be held on May 22, 2019 did not mean that the cabinet would be dissolved on the same day.
Clarifying his earlier statement to State House correspondents after Thursday’s Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja, the minister said it was the prerogative of the President to dissolve the cabinet anytime he chose.
“It is therefore inaccurate to extrapolate from my statement – that the FEC valedictory session will hold on May 22 – to say that the President will dissolve the cabinet on the same day. They do not mean the same thing,” he said.
Source: Punch
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