Replace Babachir Lawal with Ogbonnaya Onu - APC Chieftain and Ex-Governor Urges Buhari

President Buhari who had last week suspended the current SGF, Babachir Lawal pending the report of a 3-man panel of inquiry, has been urged to replace him with a serving minister.

Buhari & Attah

 

A Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, to replace the suspended SGF, Babachir Lawal.

 

Attah said that APC, as an amalgam of different parties, has to catre for the interests of its component units, adding that while the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, produced the president, the Action Congress of Nigeria ACN, the vice president, the new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, the National Assembly leadership, only the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, has not been adequately represented.

 

He said: “The APC is made up of the defunct ACN, ANPP, CPC, and later the New PDP. The CPC produced the president, The APC Leader, Asiwaju Tinubu, nominated someone as the vice president, those from the PDP control the National Assembly and I had always thought that the ANPP should produce the SGF and that person is Ogbonnaya Onu, their leader who is a man of integrity and has a lot of experience as a former governor, party leader and a minister.

“So, I was quite surprised that he did not get it in the first place, unless he says he does not want it, then they can nominate another person from the ANPP bloc, but still from the South East,” he said.