Presidency Misspells Ministerial Nominees' Names
original, the misspellings in the names of some of the
ministerial nominees President Goodluck Jonathan
transmitted to the Nigerian Senate on Monday again
exposes the quality of the work of the presidency.
On Monday before he travelled out of the country,
President Jonathan forwarded the nominees' names to the
Senate for confirmation.
Among the best-known names was military general and
repeated top government official Aliyu Mohamed Gusau.
Nonetheless, his name was written as 'Aliu'.
Similarly, the name of Mrs. Laurentia Laraba Mallam was
sent by the executive to the legislature as 'Lawrencia
Labaran.'
Cross-checking this information, SaharaReporters was
authoritatively told by a security official from Kaduna
State who is serving in Abuja that the correct spelling of
his aunty's name was wrongly spelled in the copy said to
have emanated from the Presidency.
"That is not the correct spelling of my aunty's name, it was
a serious misspelling and not good," he said. "She has no
Labaran in the arraignment of her names but Laraba. It is
important personality's choice and appropriate names are
written for official purposes and ought to be correct."
It was also gathered that many newspapers effected the
correction, while others did not and others carried an
admixture of correct and incorrect names.
Attempts to obtain clarification from Jonathan's Principal
Private Secretary, Hassan Tukur, were unsuccessful.
"These things might look minor but they are not," a
political analyst told SaharaReporters. "If these people
cannot get right the names of well-known Nigerians they
are nominating for top government offices at the highest
level, what else are they getting wrong? If they are getting
wrong something they care about, what can they get right
about issues and people they don't care about? Better still,
what do they care about? How has mediocrity travelled so
far?"
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