Political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has talked about that the corrupt pedigree of some personalities that now populate President Muhammadu Buhari’s new cabinet displays that governance inside the nation has been formally and efficiently handed over to looters and manifestly corrupt folks.
He referred to as on Nigerians to lower their expectations for true dividends of democracy nevertheless should fairly anticipate unprecedented and astronomical rise inside the stage of corruption inside the nation in the midst of the interval the current administration will keep in office.
Reacting to the inauguration of newest Ministers and activity of portfolios launched on Wednesday, Frank, in a press launch he signed and made on the market to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, talked about nothing constructive can come from the model new Ministers because of “70 to 80 per cent of them have at one time or the other been firm of the anti-corruption companies with most of them nonetheless battling corruption costs in courtroom.”
According to Frank, “there’ll most likely be additional corruption on this cabinet than in each different administration inside the historic previous of Nigeria as among the many Ministers purchased their slots and would want to recoup their investments on the detriment of Nigeria and Nigerians.
Therefore, I urge Nigerians to brace up for additional hardships as corruption and incompetence have been enthroned with corruption masters turned Ministers to run the affairs of presidency in Nigeria.
Buhari instructed Nigerians in 2015 that he’ll decrease his wage by 50 per cent, in the reduction of the airplane inside the presidential fleet sooner than he turned President. He moreover talked about he would reduce the cars inside the Presidential convoy.
“But Nigerians can testify that this was certainly not accomplished. He neither decreased his wage, airplane inside the presidential fleet nor cars in his convoy.
“With this resulting from this reality, it is clear to Nigerians that General Buhari is a product of lies who has continued to dwell and rule with falsehood. It is apparent that Nigeria cannot switch forward beneath this circumstances because of darkness and light-weight do not have something in widespread.”
Reacting to Buhari’s directive that ministers who want to see him ought to endure his Chief of Staff or the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Frank queried: “What is the President nonetheless doing in office? By this movement, he has absolutely abdicated his obligations and declared himself unavailable and unfit to occupy the Office of President.
“To subordinate ministers to the whims and caprices of his aides characterize a gross abuse of office and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“This is impunity of one of the best order and a jail alienation of the states of the federation that these ministers characterize. Effectively, General Buhari’s misguided order signifies that the CoS and SGF are the de facto presidents.”
He talked about that one other excuse why Nigerians mustn’t take Buhari and his cupboard extreme is that he is not an individual of integrity.
“In 2015, whereas campaigning, General Buhari promised to chop again the value of governance if elected. After his election, he appointed 36 Ministers in apparent fulfilment of the promise. Why did he appoint 43 Ministers in 2019?
“We don’t need seer to know that ballooning of the cupboard would enormously improve authorities administrative worth and have an effect on negatively on his ability to ship on infrastructural enchancment inside the face of dwindling nationwide earnings.
Never inside the historic previous of Nigeria has any President appointed 43 Ministers. What has modified between 2015 and 2019 that led to this atrocious progress of the cupboard?” Frank requested.
