President Tinubu Should Know That Nigeria Doesn’t Need A Bloated Cabinet Right Now – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party has come out to slam the Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government over what it called the bloated nature of the cabinet.

A loyalist of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Mr. Segun Showunmi, recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, he does not understand why the government should be that large at a time when a lean cabinet seems more needful, given the financial state of the country.

He added that Nigeria cannot be allowed to become a captured nation with no way out of the slavery of helplessness.

His words, “First, should the government be that large at a time when a lean cabinet seems more needful given the financial state of the country? Can a nation be in dire straits and those who created the financial and governance mess be shoving it in our face as though we have become a captured nation with no way out of the slavery of helplessness?

The flopper-in-chief has started changing the portfolios even before they start their original assignments, indicative of trial and error and lack of preparation. Not much has changed in the recycled status quo, resembling the same of same and the most notorious bullies having the undeserved right to add to the misery of the people in some sad reality of gangsterism of the new order.

The big issues before the nation in no particular order are, accountability & justice, stabilising the naira, security, national cohesion, the economy, particularly jobs and national reorientation to mention but a few.

In the last nearly 82 or so days, our new helmsman has demystified himself and whatever toga of competence that was mouthed. Unfortunately, they neither allowed the media to ask questions during the campaigns nor allowed for sober interrogation of the issues by the stakeholders who seemed to have been hoodwinked with irrelevances as against asking the critical how. They have now resulted to bragging and raking and policy somersaul.

The biggest joke is a palliative of rice and wholesale delivery of N5bn in the direction of state governors which to my mind, is like giving the fish to the cat with the expectation of delivery to the rat. They have not accepted that it’s either you deregulate and take your hands off the pricing of petroleum products or you interfere with it in a veiled return to the subsidy you claim you are unable to sustain.

Investor and exporter window and floating of the forex by the Central Bank of Nigeria is unfortunately not yielding anything but misery; typical of people who act before they think in a knee-jerk trial and error manner, voodoo economics, have no capability or interest in figuring out and placing consequences on those who ran the forex aground.”