The Labour Party (LP) has slammed President Bola Tinubu over the list of his ministerial nominees forwarded to the National Assembly last week.
Gists9ja recalls the President’s Chief Of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila on Thursday presented the list of ministerial nominees to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio during the plenary of the lawmakers.
However, the Labour Party in a statement by its spokesman, Pastor Obiora Ifoh questioned why President Tinubu only sent 28 names and left about ten states without any representation in the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
The statement noted that the party is seeking proper legal counsel and may take a decision in the coming days to demand the full list of nominees as envisaged by the Electoral Act instead of the partial list submitted by the President.
The party added that despite taking a long time to release his nominees, Tinubu still disappointed Nigerians with the calibre of people included in the list.
Obiora said the expectations of Nigerians have been shattered by the names contained in the list because they consist of failed and clueless politicians who have only been recycled.
The statement reads in part: “Labour Party will therefore in the days ahead seek proper legal counsel on the legality or otherwise of a piecemeal submission of the ministerial list as against the submission of the “Full” list as envisaged by the Electoral Act”.
“About 10 states will not have representatives in the Federal Executive Council meeting when it is convened. No state in Nigeria should be made to suffer for the ill-preparedness and incongruous attitude of this government.
“It is therefore pertinent for us to put on record that the expectations of Nigerians were completely shattered.
“Nigerians expected more quality, character, dynamic, and resulted-oriented Nigerians to be on that list, but what we saw is a recycling of some failed and clueless politicians who have contributed to bringing Nigeria to its parlous condition.
“Some of these nominees played prominent anti-democratic roles in the previous administration, particularly since 2015, which saw the APC government fail in all its promises to Nigerians.
“We also saw “Prebendal” politics in full swing where mainly the cronies and lackeys of the APC national leader were selected for a reward for servitude and blind discipleship.
“This list does not in any way reflect the enormous reservoir of talents, potentials, and resources Nigeria is known for.
“It still baffles us as to why this government ignored the youthful and technocratic potentials that abound but rather chose to appoint spent forces that have failed Nigeria in the past.
A glance at the list exposes the absence of technocrats who usually form the nucleus or core policy implementers in any given government for effective delivery, given the socio-economic condition of the people, challenges we have with the economy as well as in all other facets of life including security, health, education, and poverty reduction amongst others.
“Assembling transactional and traditional politicians to man the government at this critical point would not give the expected result. The political class has failed Nigerians in the past and as the saying goes, we desire square pegs in square holes but that is far from what we are being served”, LP stated.
