Group Accuses Tinubu of Nepotism After  Replacing Sacked NSIP Coordinator with Yoruba Man

Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja

A group, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Forever Initiative, has accused President Bola Tinubu of nepotism after replacing the sacked National Coordinator /CEO National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), Halima Shehu, a northerner, with Dr. Akindele Egbuwalo, a Yoruba Man from the South-west.

It added that the sacking of Shehu didn’t come as a surprise but a manifestation that the federal government through the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu, was attempting to cover up some misdoings in government.

It said it was undeserving that President Bola Tinubu would approve the suspension of his appointee without investigation or setting up an investigative panel to unravel the allegations that must have led to the suspension.

The group insisted that if the government was sincere, the minister should have been suspended alongside the National Coordinator and CEO of NSIPA to pave the way for effective investigation.

President of the group, Obande Gideon, while addressing a press conference in Abuja, yesterday, maintained that it was wrong for the president to approve the suspension of Shehu and immediately replaced her with a Yoruba man instead of the most senior civil servant in her agency who was from the North.

The group, therefore, called on Tinubu to quickly intervene and address Nigerians if truly there were missing funds and how the funds got missing, adding that investigation would reveal the real culprits stealing or trying to steal public funds.