President Buhari Set To Name Chief Of Staff, SGF, Other Aides Today

The shape and faces to the Muhammadu Buhari administration will begin to unfold today
baring any last minute change of mind by the president, Vanguard has learnt. Among
those to be named are the Chief of Staff, Secretary to the Government of the Federation,
SGF and personal staff of the president and the vice-president.Yesterday, the president
requested the Senate to approve 15 special advisers for him. Meanwhile, the delay in the
announcement of senior officials of the new administration, it was learnt yesterday,
flowed from the delay by the former officials of Goodluck Jonathan administration in
forwarding their handover notes to the transition committee constituted by Buhari.
Sources close to the President and the
ruling All Progressives Congress, APC,
disclosed yesterday that the president
would make known the senior officials of
his government today. Besides the Chief
of Staff and SGF, other officials to be
named may include the Special Adviser
to the National Assembly, Political
Adviser among senior aides of the
president.
“The announcements will be made today
baring a last minute change of decision,”
a source privy to the development told
Vanguard last night even as he added
that the president’s scheduled trip to
Niger and Chad may be the only factors
that may delay the announcement.
Meanwhile, a senior associate of the
president yesterday traced the delay in
the announcement of the president’s
senior aides to the delay in the
transmission of the handover notes by
the Jonathan officials to the transition
team constituted by Buhari ahead of his
inauguration.
“All we have been doing since Friday is
poring over these notes. This is because
you need to know the position of things
before you delegate the appropriate
personnel to any establishment of
government,” a source privy to the
ongoing developments told Vanguard last
night.