Orji Kalu Criticises Buhari For Stuffing Cabinet With ‘Imported People’

Ex-Abia Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly padding his cabinet with “imported People“.

Kalu, while serving as a guest on AIT`s ‘Clear View’, said this in reaction to notions that President Buhari abandoned some people who campaigned for him before his 2015 election victory.

The former governor said certain things were wrong with the Buhari Presidency because some people who “ are supposed to run with the mandate“ he had before winning the election were allegedly nowhere to be found.

Kalu therefore urged the president to make amends and accommodate those people who deserved a place in his cabinet in his subsequent appointments.

“Appoint those people who followed you during campaigns so that they can have the benefit of where you want to be.

“You cannot just win an election and import people to come and run the same government you want; it is not possible, it is not going to work.

“So, politicians are supposed to run with the mandate they ran around with to win the election. If you go around, you will hear people saying, ‘we won election and the president doesn’t want to bring everybody on board.’

“So, the president should, as much as possible, bring people who worked with him on board.

“In fact, if I were in the president’s shoes, all the people who ran the presidential election with me and those who did not run and some leaders deserve to be told, you have one minister, go and appoint him and bring for me.

“The minister is Buhari’s minister; he is not Orji Kalu’s minister. But you help to appoint him because you worked for the party. That is the essence of constitutional/business democracy,” said the former governor.