Resurgent PDP blasts Osinbajo: You are merely a figurehead

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, has slammed Acting president Yemi Osinbajo saying he is not in charge of the country and is merely a figurehead.

The party, which is now beginning to get its voice back after a Supreme Court ruling resolved a leadership crisis that threatened to tear the party apart, said the actions of Osinbajo since he was made Acting President shows that power was not really handed over to him before President Buhari left for a medical vacation in the United Kingdom.

A Spokesperson for the party, Dayo Adeyeye, told the Punch on Sunday that Osinbajo refusal to assign portfolios to the two ministers that were sworn in more than two weeks ago shows that he is just a figurehead.

“The Acting President is not in charge of the country. He is not in charge of anything. This is why nothing is moving forward.

“How do you explain a situation where two of the ministers who were sworn in after much pressure from the people and the National Assembly have not been assigned portfolios?

“He is not in charge. He is a mere figurehead and cannot do anything. The cabals are still in charge. That is why nothing is moving forward in this country.

“The two ministers are just idle. They have no offices, nowhere to resume to and nothing to do. What is the essence of their being sworn in then? They are ministers without portfolios.

“It is a constitutional breach on the side of the government because each state ought to have a minister each. Now, these two states had been without ministers for long and after you reluctantly appointed them, you refused to give them offices.”

Twenty days after Osinbajo administered the oath of office on Stephen Ocheni from Kogi State and Suleiman Hassan from Gombe State they have not been assigned portfolios.

Their inauguration came after another long delay since May when they were screened and cleared by the Senate.

It also took a resolution and an ultimatum issued by the House of Representatives for the ministers to be inaugurated.

Meanwhile, Members of the House of Representatives on Sunday called on Osinbajo to assign portfolios to the two new ministers immediately saying the delay in assigning portfolios to them was abnormal.

James Faleke, a member from Lagos said the ministers seemed to be idle. He said the delay in assigning portfolios to them defies explanations.

“I don’t think that this is the way things should be.The 1999 Constitution is specific on the issue of representation of each state in FEC. Kogi and Gombe states were left out for a long time.

“Now that the ministers have been appointed and the Acting President has inaugurated them, they should be given portfolios.

“They were not idle before they were appointed ministers; they were doing something. But, now they are left hanging.

Another member, Karimi Sunday, recalled that Osinbajo told the nation the day he inaugurated the ministers that they would be assigned portfolios “shortly.”

He told The Punch that he did not know how long it would take for the Acting President’s shortly to come to reality.

“It s surprising what is happening these days. It will appear that this government is confused.”

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