Federal Executive Council is over Bloated, Says Atiku’s Aide

Chuks Okocha in Abuja

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Otunba Segun Showunmi and a former media aide to the former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has described the newly inaugurated Federal Executive Council (FEC) elephantine and imprudent.

Addressing a  press conference at the PDP national secretariat, he  said that he was  speaking on behalf of the PDP and as  an Atiku’s aide.

In this regard he said. “To call the ministerial lineup “dismal”, “elephantine” or “imprudent” is putting it mildly. It is clear that this government wishes to adopt the rake strategy, not as in poker but as in the bragging that tries to mask crass ill-preparedness, flip-flopping around serious issues and deep psychopathic I-don’t-care attitude”.

According  to Showunmi, “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.”

He explained further: “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 former PDP governorship aspirant in Ogun state said that  the big issues before the nation in no particular order are, accountability and  justice, stabilising the Naira, security, national cohesion, the economy (jobs) and national reorientation to mention but a few.

He explained that 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 campaign 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 summersault.

“The biggest joke is a palliative of rice and wholesale delivery of N5 billion 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, brilliant indeed.

“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 are unable to sustain, confused lot.

“The Import and Export  window and floating of the forex by the CBN 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, oh I forgot they have no capability or interest in figuring out and placing consequences on those who ran the forex aground, now at last check the difference between the bank rate and the black market rate still gives a reasonable headroom for illegal profit, arbitrage they sought to avoid.

“First, they scrapped the Niger Delta ministry then they hurriedly put it back, Someone should pinch me to wake up not just me but a captured people who must, barring the ruling of the court, endure a long road to freedom. There is no point saying the obvious in terms of the lopsidedness and favouritism that the cabinet has shown

“Well, let us now get ready for the consequences of what is before us in this elephantine cabinet that has just been inaugurated,” Showunmi stressed.