In One Fell Swoop, PMB Weeds Out Jonathan’s Men
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday authorised the removal of 26 heads of various federal government agencies and parastatals, according to a statement from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF). The long awaited, but sudden, sack of the heads of the federal government parastatals seems to have taken some of those affected by surprise. LEADERSHIP’s checks revealed that most of them were shocked by the development. This purge, it was learnt, was carried out by President Buhari to settle the ongoing clash of interest between advocates of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda and the incumbent’s change mantra. Sources within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said that following undue pressure from politicians, who had complained that the agencies’ chief executives had been allowed to stay for too long, the president moved quickly to effect the sack order on his first day in office after his brief leave. LEADERSHIP