Political corpse

Nigeria President appointed a deceased to the government

The 77-year-old President of Nigeria Mohammad Bukhari appointed a candidate whose funeral took place in February, the English The Times reports.

The president’s letter on the appointment of the late member of the Tobias Parliament Chukvuimeki Oksvuru in the Federal Government (Federal Character Commission) was published in the Senate of Nigeria. The vacancy opened again when the journalists indicated that Okvur could not take this position in any way, since recently died.

The presidential spokesman has entrusted the responsibility for a mistake for the democratic system, explaining that with democracy, the procedure for selecting and appointing a candidate takes too much time. “This is not a“ woman-gone, hollow (the nickname of Bukhari-“Baba Go Slow”), and the system is such, but I follow the rules and, I hope, we can handle it, ”the president’s words reports.

“He generally likes to promote the dead,” the newspaper remarks sarcastically, recalling that in 2017 there were already at least five similar appointments to the Soviets of government agencies.

By the way, in Nigeria, no less than 200 million people live.

As for the president, Major General Mohammad Bukhari headed the country in 1983 as a result of a military coup, but he himself was overthrown in two years. At the beginning of this century, he ran for president three times and finally won the elections in 2015. In 2019, re-elected for a four-year term.

The British press seemed relevant. A huge number of complaints to the government about how it copes with coronacrisis, and annoyance for the lack of intelligible answers on his part gave a reason for sarcasm: “There would be Britain more careless, this guy ( *Nigerian, advanced in service - *e.D. ) could head a public investigation in the case of coronavirus,” the left -handed levoliberal The Guardian.