Don’t Appoint People with Questionable Character in Your Govt, CSO Tells Tinubu

Adedayo Akinwale

A civil society group, the Centre for Leadership Legacy Int’l (Centre LLI), has urged President Bola Tinubu not to appoint people with questionable character into his cabinet.

The Centre in a statement issued yesterday, by its Executive Director, Dr. Yakubu Idris, reminded the president that the buck stops on his table, and that if he fails to meet the expectations of Nigerians on account of appointment of people of questionable character, he has posterity to contend with.

He warned the president against prioritising party patronage over competence, character, pedigree and track records.

Idris said: “It’s time to go for competence and character and pedigree. Nigeria is already at the precipice and we cannot afford to toy with its destiny any further.

“Our note of caution to the president is against the backdrop of the purported plans to pressure him into appointing people who were found to have abused their offices in the past.

“There are reports that there are plans to impose certain persons whose track records are tainted on the President for appointments into his cabinet. The need for the President to appoint individuals of unblemished character is more urgent now than ever.”

The Centre said at the moment, the President was being bombarded with names from every nook and cranny of the country, adding that political jobbers were at their games, peddling names of likely ministers that would be appointed to work with Tinubu.

It specifically gave the instance of the former Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), who it said was being paraded before the president for appointment after being eased out of office following allegations of abuse of office.