Ex-governors on Tinubu’s ministerial list uninspiring – CISLAC

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center (CISLAC), has declared that Nigerians are tired of some of the names on the ministerial list, especially former governors submitted by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the Senate for screening and confirmation.

CISLAC said that such names were really uninspiring and largely frustrating Nigerians.

CISLAC specifically said that this was not the time for President Tinubu to compromise his cabinet by pleasing “political merchants”.

The Executive Director of CISLAC, Mr. Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, who stated these while reacting to the list submitted to the Senate, expressed grave concerns over some of the former governors who he noted had serious integrity issues.

He said that what the President merely did was to carry out political massaging by bringing in people he intended to compensate politically.

He queried why the much awaited list only carried some of the former governors that had not obviously done what was being expected of them, thereby frustrating the hopes of Nigerians.

Rafsanjani further said; “I think Tinubu has been caught up in the bid to satisfy some political interests. I don’t think Nigerians are looking for settlement of politicians. I think what Nigerians need at this point in time are people who can actually deliver not people who will do political massaging.

“Nigerians are tired of seeing names that have no capacity, and it is clear that many of the names on the list, don’t have any demonstrative capacity process in their past assignments.

“We expected Tinubu to come up with more names that are very progressive, competent, qualified and have not got any corruption baggage. Some of the names are not really fantastic. They are not really what Nigerians are looking for.”