If the copy at the disposal of SaharaReporters is truly 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’.
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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?
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