Chaudhry mengatakan penunjukkannya merupakan perubahan takdir yang aneh karena ia pernah diberikan jabatan yang sama pada 1987 ketika mantan pemimpin militer dan Perdana Menteri Siveni Ribuka menggulingkan pemerintahan pertama yang didominasi oleh etnis India pimpinan Timoci Bavadra yang merupakan warga pribumi Fiji.
Chaudhry said his appointment was a strange twist of destiny, because he had been given the same post in 1987 when former military chief and prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka overthrew the first government dominated by ethnic Indians, although it was led by Fijian Timoci Bavadra.