Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State on Friday complained that President Muhammaud Buhari has been making appointments into various offices without consulting the state governors.

He spoke on Friday at the commissioning and official opening of the national headquarters of the Buhari Support Organisations (BSO) in Abuja where the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), retired Colonel Hameed Ali also pointedly said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government has derailed halfway into its tenure as a result of decline in its core values, vision and mission.

While speaking in line with sentiments of the Customs boss, Governor Lalong noted that the President has been making appointments without involving the governors.

“If things are wrong, they are wrong. If they are right, they are right. But it requires very courageous people to come out and say these things are wrong or they are right.

“Let Mr. President be aware that this is the time to do it, because even as governors, we are also complaining in our various states. We complain in our states that we sit down and we hear appointments made and then people start asking you as the governor where is this man coming from? But when we turn right and turn left, we don’t know where such a person is coming from.

“Many people have complained. I’m sure governors have complained that we should be able to know who and who will protect Mr. President and his administration.

“When I heard that BSO is coming back again, I said is it not too late? Because if you allow people to grumble too much, you will see fight in several states and some of them are for a just course.

“Somebody suffered for the party, the person is not rewarded, and you wake up to see another man who even fought you. The man who made you to lose your job is now being appointed and the one who suffered is sitting down. Sometimes he will be looking for tears to cry and the tears will not be there because they are dry.

“Like our chairman said to me, it is not too late. This is the time to start because this is the time you will hear a lot of things coming. People who have not served will come back and say I had served this way, I had serve that way.

“But the records are there. The records cannot lie,” Governor Lalong said.