Recent political appointments, immoral and politically immature - Itse Sagay
He said Jonathan was merely setting traps for his successor, Muhammadu Buhari.
Sagay said such behaviour was averse to democratic norms and practices worldwide.
Jonathan had in the last three weeks
appointed a new Inspector-General of Police, a new Managing Director of
the Nigerian Ports Authority, a new Chairman of the Securities and
Exchange Commission and 13 chairmen of governing councils of new federal
universities, among others.
Sagay, while reacting to the development,
said, “Personally I think it is an improper behaviour because he is
saddling the new administration with decisions and appointments which he
should have allowed them (Buhari’s government) to make in accordance
with their own priorities and preferences.
“What Jonathan has done is to saddle them
with people that they might not have appointed and he has removed
people that they might have wanted to keep. Although he is legally
capable of doing it, I think it is politically and morally wrong.
“And for me, it is an act in bad faith.
Creating problems for your successor is not a good thing. The
last-minute burst of energy to exercise power doesn’t make sense to me.
It is just wrong and in a more mature society, this will not be done.”
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