Controversy trails Patience Jonathan’s appointment as Perm Sec

[Ibrahim Ibrahim A]

LAGOS—Reactions have continued to trail the appointment of the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, as a Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa State Civil Service.

While Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, described the appointment as sycophancy carried too far,  Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, argued that with the development, no one could be shocked with any inanity from Peoples Democracy Party, PDP-led Federal Government.

Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO,  in Bayelsa State, said the appointment was a slap on the people of the state, and challenged the state government to disclose the work that Mrs. Jonathan had done to warrant the appointment.

Mr. Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of Save Nigeria Group, SNG, described it as the height of absurdity.

He said: "It is absurd. It is also trivialisation of governance for a governor to appoint the First Lady of a country as a Permanent Secretary. It is the height of idiocy.