A former aide to Atiku Abubakar, Daniel Bwala has described the designations of Tinubu’s Ministers as square pegs in round holes.
Bwala said this while responding to questions in a television program on Channels TV, politics today.
He said some of these appointed ministers are not even competent enough to be on the list.
According to him:
“There are people on the list who are not competent enough to be there in the first place, and there are competent individuals whose positions they are attached to are a mismatch.
For example, Hannatu Musawa is made Minister of Art, Culture, and the Creative Economy, while her counterpart Betta Edu is made Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
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“Then you have a president who believes he needs to invade Niger; probably he has plans to extend that to Mali and Burkina Faso. The president (Tinubu), as chair of ECOWAS, is committed to a fight around that.
“There are certainly going to be humanitarian crises around the border, and that’s where she [Hannatu] comes from; she’s familiar with humanitarian issues and will be a perfect fit as humanitarian minister. While Betty, coming from Cross River with a rich cultural festival, will be a fit as a minister of culture.
“Secondly, the minister of state for defense [Bello Matawalle] was a former governor who, all through the four years of managing the state, had an approval rating of 5 out of 100 in fighting insecurity. Also, the minister of defense is from the same geopolitical zone.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had assigned portfolios to his Ministers designates who are scheduled to be sworn in on Monday, 21, 2023.
