A group, the Northern Progressives Union, has urged President Bola Tinubu not to take former northern governors into his government, saying that they won’t bring about any significant changes.
The appeal, which was made in a statement released yesterday by NPU Coordinator, Mohammed Kiyawa, was made in response to mounting concern over the president’s list of ministerial nominees’ ongoing postponement. Kiyawa urged Tinubu to refrain from picking any of the recently-departed state governors from the North as ministers or cabinet members.
According to him, some of the governors betrayed the trust of the party and allegedly worked in favour of the opposition in the last presidential election.
“We are foot soldiers of the APC in this part of the country, and therefore, making a categorical statement urging Mr. President and the APC as a political party not to entertain the idea of nominating any of the former governors from the region in the incoming cabinet. They do not have the required capacities and capabilities to drive the process.
“Our demand is legitimate, and is consequent upon the misdeeds that some of them during the 2023 general elections were mostly moles and fifth columnists used by the opposition parties and in most cases funds given to them for elections were personalised and kept for self-serving purposes,”, the statement partly read.
The NPU Coordinator also noted that described them as ‘spent force and failed politicians who can’t fit into the reality of the president’s visionary plan for the country.
