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Egbeyemi urges Buhari to remove PDP members from federal boards

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Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to remove Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members who are still on boards of federal commissions, boards and agencies despite the expiry of their tenure.

Egbeyemi warned that PDP members still hibernating in the APC administration may sabotage efforts of the President to sanitize the polity.

The deputy governor, who spoke in an interview broadcast by the television channel of the Broadcasting Service of Ekiti State (BSES) monitored in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, described the situation of having PDP members in the Buhari government as “annoying.”

He urged the President to look for competent APC members and anoint them into federal boards, commissions, agencies and parastatals for them to execute the “next level agenda” of the administration.

Egbeyemi also urged the President to allocate oil wells to states of the federation to make them more buoyant and less dependent on the Federal Government for survival.

According to him, the President should not hesitate to strip some powerful Nigerians of their oil blocks and allocate same to the states to ensure development.

Egbeyemi assured Nigerians that they would enjoy more dividends of democracy during Buhari’s second term, saying the President was more determined to make a difference in their lives.

He said: “The victory achieved by the President was a victory for Nigeria indeed and the masses who reposed confidence in him and voted him back to office.

“This is the time for him to take some bold and radical decisions to make life better for the citizenry and ensure economic recovery.

“President Buhari, during his second term, must make the states buoyant. He must take oil wells from individuals and allocate them to the states so that they can pay their workers, build more
infrastructures and establish industries.

“We have some individuals holding oil wells having billions of Naira coming to them every day while majority of Nigerians are living in poverty.”

Egbeyemi also enjoined the President to constitute a think tank that will assist his administration to immediately hit the ground running after taking the oath of office for the second time on May 29.

He added: “The task ahead is onerous but surmountable. President Buhari must allow people like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Governor Kayode Fayemi and other eggheads in the North and the South to join hands in taking care of the situation.

“There must be a serious think tank to assist him move this great country forward. He should surround himself with patriotic individuals not those who are selfish.

“The President should put those who want the progress of this country in the helm of affairs. For example, see what Fayemi is doing in Ekiti, he (Fayemi) didn’t put those who don’t know what they are doing in positions of responsibility.

“The anti-corruption crusade must continue, those who have stolen the nation’s wealth must be made to face justice and such money be returned to the treasury.”

Egbeyemi assured Nigerians that they will enjoy more dividends of democracy during Buhari’s second term saying the President was more determined to make a difference in their lives.

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