Asked when he would constitute his cabinet, the president said, rather jocularly, that the question was haunting him around the world even to the point that at home he had been given a nickname for his perceived slowness. He, however, observed that not even the PDP during all the years it ruled the country ever formed a cabinet within the first four months.
“Within the past two weeks I’ve been asked when I’m going to form my cabinet. And in some quarters they are now calling me `Baba Go Slow’.
“I am going to go slow and steady,” he declared, and solicited the patience of Nigerians to allow the new administration “put some sense into governance and deal with corruption.”
Buhari further told the Nigerian community in that country that he would study the Diaspora Bill with a view to signing it into law as they requested.
He counseled those Nigerians in the Diaspora scrambling for government jobs and appointments back home in Nigeria to suspend their ambition, saying the nation’s economy was in a shambles and would take his administration about 18 months or more to resuscitate it.
He, however, promised that some of them would be engaged by the federal government as consultants to enable them contribute their quota to the nation’s development.
All those who spoke at the interactive session expressed their readiness to assist the APC-led administration to achieve its campaign promises to Nigerians.
The president had earlier met at the same venue with a group of young professionals in the United States and assured them of his government’s resolve to fight corruption, remain steadfast and invest heavily in education which, he said, was the answer to taking the youths out of poverty and ignorance.
Source:Leadership
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