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A seasoned journalist and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dele Momodu, has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of compensating incompetent friends with appointments.
While criticising the makeup of Tinubu’s cabinet, Momodu noted that the President is failing because he tried to replicate his Lagos template in Abuja.
Reacting to the current economic crisis in the country, Momodu, in an interview with Channels TV on Monday, July 22, said it is difficult to name 10 out of Tinubu’s ministers or appointees alongside their accomplishments.
“I have travelled to Australia. There is nowhere you would not meet Nigerians doing great things. Where are those people? In Nigeria today it is either you are the son of, the daughter of… Nigeria cannot continue to operate on basis of compensation. ‘I must compensate my friend, my former schoolmate’.
“A lot of the people in his cabinet now, their lives totally depend on Tinubu. They can’t tell him the truth. I know what a lot of them say behind when they see us.
“So, what we have today is that someone tried to transfer Lagos template to Abuja and that is why we are failing.
“I’m someone who believes in a star-studded cabinet. Today, if you ask me to name 10 ministers in Tinubu’s cabinet and tell you what they did or did not do before they were appointed, I will struggle. That is the truth.”
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