Chief Sam Nkire, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a member of the party’s national caucus, has urged President Bola Tinubu to include founding APC members in his cabinet.
In a statement issued yesterday, the APC chieftain claimed that former President Muhammadu Buhari ignored qualified founding fathers of the party in favor of those he (Nkire) referred to as “Johnny Just-Comes” in his belated appointments.
Nkire made the request in advance of the president’s impending announcement of additional appointments to positions in his new government and cabinet.
Nkire, the pioneer leader of the APC Caucus in Abia State, said Buhari’s indifference to rewarding foundation members and those who helped him rise to power reached the point where his wife, Aisha Buhari, had to go public to condemn him.
He stated that hard work, and loyalty to the President, party, and country should be rewarded over religion and tribal sentiments in selecting competent people to run Nigeria’s affairs this time around.
Nkire also recalled how President Buhari kept delaying the announcement of the 50-man list sent to him from the 36 states and Abuja, including party leaders like himself, until many on that list died while waiting.
The APC stalwart said he had “nothing against Tinubu forming a government of national unity, provided it included some of the founding members of APC, such as Dr. Musa Kwankwaso and others who left the party due to Buhari’s style of leadership.”
Nkire, therefore, appealed to all Nigerians who hoped for a new Nigeria to bank on Tinubu and give him the needed support to revamp the battered and insecure nation and lead it to the path of progress and prosperity once again.
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