Come up with Criteria for Constituting Federal Executive Council, CROYN Tasks Tinubu

The Congress for Rights Of Yoruba Nationalities (CROYN) yesterday charged President Bola Tinubu to come up with criteria he wanted to adopt in constituting the federal executive Council.

In a statement by its National President, Abiodun Fanoro, CROYN advised the president to accord greater preference for genuine and patriotic technocrats and professionals in constituting his cabinet.

Fanoro called for the appointment of tried and tested politicians with track record of commitment, integrity and proven achievements exemplified by the trio of former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, former Kano State Governor Nasir El-Rufai and ex-Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola.

He said Wike eminently deserved to be invited to the cabinet not because he commendably delivered Rivers to Tinubu, but more importantly because as one of the governor of the oil producing areas, he was unarguably adjudged best and most judicious, the deployment of extra earnings accrued to the respective states, especially in the areas of infrastructural development and transformation of lives, attested to by then President Muhammadu Buhari, who on the basis of that awarded him national honour.

For El-Rufai, according to Fanoro, Tinubu needed such an audacious and courageous personality in his cabinet who can speak to authorities when the chips were down and when it became inevitable without being necessarily insubordinate or disloyal, the way he commendably acted during the APC presidential primary last year and during the ill-timed and ill-implemented controversial Naira re-design and swap exercise.

Despite the non-transparent and cloudy commitment to delivery, which characterised the Buhari’s administration, Fanoro noted that Fashola as minister very well performed notwithstanding the obviously un-conducive and slippery environment.

As governor, according to him, his achievements and eagerness to work remained a record, not to talk about his performance as Chief of Staff to then Governor Tinubu.

He noted that the critical state of emergency the country was today only a renewed hope, the battle cry of the president, manned by genuine and patriotic life-savers as ministers and members of strategic departments of government could save the country from comma and slipping into a hopeless state.

“In history, when countries found themselves in state of emergencies as it is the case in Nigeria today they always went for their best and geniuses, irrespective of party-affiliations, ethnicity, religion and other divisive criteria”, Fanoro observed.

He urged the president to note all eyes, especially foreign investors, bilateral and multi-lateral development partners and friendly nations were looking up to the kind of cabinet he would put in place to determine whether or not they would heed his clarion call for investment.