Note: The President has already stated that he will not unlike his predecessors include additional members - e.g. one from each of the geo-political zones -- beyond the constitutional requirement.
Punch
19 May 2011
By Ihuoma Chiedozie
President Goodluck Jonathan has formally dissolved the Presidential Advisory Council as he gets set to commence a four-year term in office on May 29.
He held farewell talks with members of PAC immediately after the Federal Executive Council meeting in the State House, Abuja
PAC members arrived at the State House in a white Coaster Bus bearing State House plate numbers just as the FEC meeting was about to end.
The group, led by Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), thereafter, filed into the Council Chambers for the “farewell meeting” with the President, who was in company with Vice-President Namadi Sambo.
But our correspondent learnt that during the meeting, which lasted barely half an hour, Jonathan and PAC members differed on the size of the new federal cabinet.
While PAC members were said to have reiterated their call on Jonathan to trim the size of his cabinet by prunning the number of ministries, departments and agencies, the President cited constitutional provision as a hindrance to a ‘slim’ FEC.
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