It’s not a sin for the president to have kitchen cabinet - Garba Shehu
- Garba Shehu has claimed that there is nothing wrong in having a kitchen cabinet
- According to him, no president can operate alone without having a team of close confidants
- Going further, he said Nigerians are being derogatory with the use of the cabal
The presidency has reacted to allegations that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has been hijacked by cabals.
According to the presidency, it is not a sin for the president close confidants.
Presidential Spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu disclosed this at the weekend in Abuja during a dinner organized by the Press Corps of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)
He said in other climes, every president usually has a “Kitchen Cabinet”, but that in Nigeria, government antagonists would prefer to refer to such collection of self-sacrificing individuals as cabals, Vanguard reports.
Shehu said: “What is the meaning of cabal? I just googled Thesaurus and among many other definitions, what they are saying is that cabal means ‘conspire, intrigues, mystique, occult, secret’. There is no government in this country that we have had that some people were not accused of being a cabal in that government and it is because every administration, every president must have a secretariat.
“Every president must have people who advise him. It is not a sin, it is not an offence to have people that you take into confidence. Elsewhere, they call it ‘Kitchen Cabinet’, but in our own country we are being derogatory and we term them the cabal so that it will tarnish their own good standing. A lot of them are successful people who are making extreme sacrifices to even be coming to serve the government."
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila said the 9th National Assembly is irrevocably committed to protecting the interests of the people through diligent discharge of its legislative duties.
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