President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that people capable enough to be ministers in his administration have been discarded because of the associations they keep.

He reassured that his cabinet would be in place before the end of the month, but admitted that he is finding the process difficult to finish because of the massive rot in the polity.

“The process is difficult to finish. So, we would continue the screening to come up with people that deserve to hold the positions. This is because, what I see daily in terms of the damage inflicted on Nigeria in the last 10 years is enormous. Only God knows its magnitude,” he said.   

‘’There are people that deserve to hold the position because of their knowledge in either financial issues or oil sector or even in governance. But you discover that in one way or the other, and whether they knew it or not, they were dragged to such unwholesome practices.

"Bringing such people will be tantamount to leaving your doors open when you have gone to rest in your apartment. Putting such people in either financial, petrol or works ministry would be dangerous because behind the scene, some people control a person. They would be dictating to them with a threat to award them contracts.

He spoke during an interview with BBC Hausa on Tuesday.