{"id":94452,"date":"2023-08-18T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T10:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=94452"},"modified":"2023-08-18T10:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T09:01:40","slug":"ministerial-list-wrong-signal-ipac-criticises-tinubu-for-appointing-petroleum-minister-of-state-from-niger-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ministerial-list-wrong-signal-ipac-criticises-tinubu-for-appointing-petroleum-minister-of-state-from-niger-delta","title":{"rendered":"Ministerial list: Wrong signal \u2013 IPAC criticises Tinubu for appointing Petroleum Minister of State from Niger Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Yabagi Sani, the National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), has criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for assigning a Minister of State for Petroleum Resources from the oil-rich Niger Delta area, insisting it is a \u2018wrong signal.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sani spoke while appearing as a guest on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily breakfast programme on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that limiting the appointment to a specific state would trigger a sense of entitlement among the Niger Delta people.<\/p>\n

Recall that Tinubu on Wednesday released portfolios for 45 ministerial designates.<\/p>\n

He appointed Heineken Lokpobiri, who is from Bayelsa, as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources but was silent on the portfolio of the Minister of Petroleum Resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, this sector [Niger Delta] has been made to look as if people that should be appointed to that ministry should come from Niger Delta,\u201d Sani said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a wrong signal because, when you now give people a sense of entitlement, their efficiency becomes something that is not given due attention to.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we must change that scenario, but if he must do that not because I\u2019m from the North Central, why don\u2019t you give the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to an indigene of North Central? \u2013 if you must be sensational about such a very important ministry.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. 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