{"id":93919,"date":"2023-08-09T20:35:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ministerial-appointments-tinubu-not-fair-to-igbos-segun-showunmi"},"modified":"2023-08-09T22:44:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T21:44:30","slug":"ministerial-appointments-tinubu-not-fair-to-igbos-segun-showunmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ministerial-appointments-tinubu-not-fair-to-igbos-segun-showunmi","title":{"rendered":"Ministerial appointments: Tinubu not fair to Igbos \u2013 Segun Showunmi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Segun Showunmi, has slammed President Bola Tinubu over the manner in which he is constituting his cabinet, claiming he\u2019s not being fair to the southeast zone.<\/p>\n

Showunmi claimed that the administration has done quite a lot of things that could be considered as serious missteps.<\/p>\n

He made the assertion on Wednesday while featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today programme.<\/p>\n

Showunmi said he is a little bit uncomfortable with the fact that it\u2019s beginning to seem that his people (southwest) would get larger positions in Tinubu\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cYou know I am a Yoruba man. Ironically, I have known Asiwaju for years. So there must be some kind of soft spot there. But I have tried very hard to say \u201clet\u2019s wait until hundred days\u201d. Why? Because there\u2019s a tradition and culture of \u201clet them take hundred days to settle down\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut unfortunately for this administration, they have done quite a lot of things that could be considered as serious missteps.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they have done it in such a brazen and hurried manner that people are now forced to say no.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have seen the kind of people he is putting in his cabinet, and I laughed at him; few brilliant persons but a few excessively recycled characters. If you come in this country and you want to do a paradigm shift, and your paradigm shift includes former governors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are 200 million people in this country. That particular party (APC) has been in charge for the last eight years. Whatever they are trying to clean now, their party caused it, their government caused it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have looked at the people he is putting together. I am a little bit uncomfortable with the fact that, if I may be honest with you, both of us Yoruba men, it\u2019s beginning to seem that our people will get the best of the cherries. I can tell you the things we have already gotten and the things we are likely to get.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in charge of customs; we are in charge of police; we are in charge of army; we are in charge of CBN; we are in charge of FIRS; we are in charge of taxation; we are in charge of appropriation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave we become such a people that we can only be fair when we are talking about other people…. We have begun to see a pattern that all of the cream is coming to us. And what we would not accept from former President Buhari, who was fairer to us than he was to his people, we must be brave enough to say that this is not even the right thing for us. We are not suddenly going to become parochial people who insist that all of the things in the country….<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes it not prick your soul that you\u2019re putting ten in one place; nine in one place; seven in one place and five in one place. And you are giving the southeast (Igbos) five. I can tell you for free, there\u2019s no mental capacity, validation, education, authentication that you are looking for in the world that you would not find Ndi Igbo, either in Nigeria or in the diaspora. Why is it now you\u2019re telling me that you can only get five from them? These are the issues\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Segun Showunmi, has slammed President Bola Tinubu over the manner in which he is constituting his cabinet, claiming he\u2019s not being fair to the southeast zone. 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