Buhari Sacked The 26 Heads Of Parastatals Because They Are Saboteurs -APC John Oyegun

The National chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Oyegun has said that the 26 government agencies and parastatals whose Heads were sacked on Monday by president Mohammadu Buhari have been compromised.

Speaking to State House Correspondents after a meeting with president Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja on Tuesday, Oyegun who led members of the National Working Committee, NWC of APC said that the party was not particularly interested in filling the positions but was concerned with the “internal sabotage” that is pervasive in the institutions.

He however stated APC has not apologies for the gale of sack.

He said: “APC members were 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.

“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, that is it.”

Asked how soon the positions could be filled up, Oyegun said “That is Mr. President’s discretion”.

Speaking on the controversy trailing the 2016 budget, APC national chairman said that it was necessary to make adjustments to reflect modern realities.

“There is absolutely no confusion. This is a serious issue. 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, that entails, it was very complicated, so it is natural that adjustments have to be made to the process and that is just is happening”, he said.

On the mission of the NWC to the presidential villa, the chairman said they needed to applaud the president on some issues which he refused to mention.

“We just came to pay our respect to our President, and praised him on things that are going we raised our concerns on one or two issues and altogether we had a very pleasant and rewarding meeting.

“No, they were just internal party matters. I’m sure you are familiar with the political terrain and nothing different”, Oyegun said.