The minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, Friday, formally stepped down as the Group Managing Director, GMD of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, with the handing over to the new helmsman, Mr. Maikanti Baru. I wandered if this is what Dele Momodu wrote about the quality of appointments being seen lately in Buhari's government, describing it as "appallingly lacklustre'.