Legal luminary and leader of the Concerned Igbo Leaders of Thought, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, has reacted to the non-appointment of ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari nearly three months after assuming power.
Nwabueze said same was the case under, former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
According to him, the development could be linked to the fact that both men had military traits in them.
Nwabueze, in an article titled, “Constitutionality of President Buhari Ruling Nigeria For More Than Two And Half Months Without a Council Of Ministers: The Concerns of the Igbo Leaders Of Thought,” said the President was expected to consult with “various executive bodies” before presidential actions.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria said only a retired army general and former head of a military government would rule Nigeria for more than two and half months without ministers.
He said the governmental system established for the country by the constitution did not permit what Buhari was doing, and his action was disrespectful to the laws of the land.
The article read in parts: “And yet, knowing his antecedents and the influence they must have on him, Nigerians elected him as ‘civilian’ President in the March 2015 election. His election cannot but portray Nigerians as incapable of learning from past experience, a people lacking the degree of political maturity and sagacity required for the successful working of constitutional democracy.”
“Since his inauguration on May 29, 2015, as elected ‘civilian’ President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, a retired army general and former head of the military government, has been ruling the country for more than two and half months without ministers.
“The President ruling for more than two and half months without ministers is really incredible, but, incredible as it is, we Nigerians, as a people, ought to have foreseen it from our experience of the dictatorial way former President Obasanjo who, like President Buhari, is a retired army general and former head of the military government, rode roughshod over the constitutional limitations on his powers”.
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