If members of the APC are disappointed in their government, what do you expect from the rest of the country?
I believe that competence and capacity should be uppermost in considering people for appointments, but I also know that all regions or ethnic groups harbour such competent people among them. Going forward, the president should be more circumspect, and look elsewhere, instead of his"household", in a delicate balancing act that Nigeria needs...
He started with politically correct appointments. The geographical spread of his service chiefs was received positively. His swift policy statements, though criticised, were timely, in comparison to the sordid silence of his predecessor. The result was a boosted aviation sector, renamed the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, under the supervision of an equally controversial figure, Festus Keyamo, while the Ministry of Transportation was debased and can now safely be called the Ministry of Railway, after the removal of everything maritime former under it, like NIMASA, NPA, Shippers' Council, etc., which are now under the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy.
Imagine the embarrassment that followed the declaration by the UAE government that they are yet to resolve and reverse their visa ban on Nigerians, after the president's spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale went to town to announce these as if they were facts. Propaganda should have limits. Why the hurry? To impress who? The disinformation has since taken the shine off the president's diplomatic engagement with his UAE counterpart.
Still smarting from all these came the issue of lopsided appointments, which we thought we had last seen with Buhari. The protests over Tinubu's skewed appointments have started from"home", with a group from the South-West accusing him of appointing only people from Lagos, contrary to the notion that Yorubas had an edge in his government.
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