Oyegun: Sacked DGs sabotaged Buhari’s govt

John Oyegun, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has praised President Muhammadu Buhari for Monday’s sacking of 26 directors-general and chief executive officers of parasta‎tals and agencies of government.

According to Oyegun, the sacked DGs presided over parastatals where a lot of “internal sabotage” against the government of the day was going.

“APC members are not concerned about the positions; we are concerned about the internal sabotage that is going on in a lot of the PDP-filled positions, which are critical to our national growth and development,” he told state house correspondents at the presidential villa on Tuesday while leading some members of the APC national working committee ‎to a meeting with the president.

“It is happening in INEC; it is happening in a lot of other institutions and that is what the concern of the party is, not necessarily taking over. We should take over and they should be people who believe in the change agenda; we have no apologies for that at all.”

He also defended the president on controversies about the 2016 budget, saying that arriving at the document was a complicated process.

“There is absolutely no confusion. This is a serious issue,” he said.

“I want you to please understand the complications that come from adjusting a structure from over 40 ministries to just over 20 ministries and the necessary adjustments of figures and movements of institutions that this entails.

“It was very complicated, so it is natural that adjustments have to be made to the process and that is just is happening.”

Babachir Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation, announced the sack without explaining the president’s action.

The agencies whose heads were removed are:

(i) Nigerian Television Authority (NTA)

(ii) Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN)

(iii) Voice of Nigeria (VON)

(iv) News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)

(v) National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)

(vi) Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF)

(vii) New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)

(viii) Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF)

(ix) Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board(NCDMB)

(x) Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN)

(xi) Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund)

(xii) National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)

(xiii) Petroleum Equalization Fund

(xiv) Nigeria Railways Corporation (NRC)

(xv) Bureau of Public Procurements (BPP)

(xvi) Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE)

(xvii) Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA)

(xviii) Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON)

(xix) National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC, pictured)

(xx) Nigeria Investment Promotion Council (NIPC)

(xxi) Bank of Industry (BoI)

(xxii) National Centre for Women Development (NCWD)

(xxiii) National Orientation Agency (NOA)

(xxiv) Industrial Training Fund (ITF)

(xxv) Nigerian Export-Import Bank

(xxvi) National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic In Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP).