Adebayo Shittu
An
investigative report has revealed that another minister from President
Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet might tender his resignation over an NYSC
certificate scandal.
President Muhammadu Buhari is expecting the resignation of the
Minister of Communications, Alhaji Adebayo Shittu, over his failure to
participate in the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps
scheme, Saturday PUNCH has reported.
The minister had failed to participate in the scheme after his
graduation from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University),
Osun State.
He had in an interview said he believed having been elected a
lawmaker shortly after his graduation, he needed not to participate in
the national service because his membership of the state assembly was
itself a “service.”
But the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress had
recently disqualified him from contesting for the party’s governorship
ticket in Oyo State based on the issue.
Meanwhile, top sources in the government told our correspondent on
Friday that President Muhammadu Buhari had also asked the embattled
minister to do the “needful.”
One of the sources said Buhari had made it clear that the minister
did not have to wait for him (the President) to act before doing the
proper thing in this instance.
He said, “The truth is that the President has made his position known to the minister and there are witnesses.
“What the President said was that people should not be waiting
for him to act the way he did in the case of a former Minister of
Finance (Mrs Kemi Adeosun) before they do what is needful.
“I am sure he is very clear on the matter the way he addressed the issue, and the minister understands this.”
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