THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has blasted acting President Yemi Osinbajo, calling a mere figurehead and not really in charge of the government.

President Muhammadu Buhari has been in the United Kingdom on medical vacation since May, after he had duly handed over power to Osinbajo. But the PDP has insisted that Osinbajo was not in power and that the government was being run by a cabal.

Dayo Adeyeye, spokesperson of the PDP, who spoke on Sunday, August 13 saying if Osinbajo was truly in charge, he would have assigned portfolios to the two ministers that were sworn in more than two weeks ago.

Indeed, Stephen Ocheni from Kogi State and Suleiman Hassan from Gombe State were sworn in after weeks of delay but have not been assigned portfolios yet. Adeyeye said: “The acting president is not in charge of the country. He is not in charge of anything. This is why nothing is moving forward.

“How do you explain a situation where two of the ministers who were sworn in after much pressure from the people and the National Assembly have not been assigned portfolios?

“He is not in charge. He is a mere figurehead and cannot do anything. The cabals are still in charge. That is why nothing is moving forward in this country.

“The two ministers are just idle. They have no offices, nowhere to resume to and nothing to do. What is the essence of their being sworn in then? They are ministers without portfolios.

“It is a constitutional breach on the side of the government because each state ought to have a minister each. Now, these two states had been without ministers for long and after you reluctantly appointed them, you refused to give them offices.”

Aug 14, 2017 @ 10: 15 GMT