With the announcement of President Bola Tinubu’s 47 cabinet picks, the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) on Wednesday raised concerns over the list, particularly the nomination of seven former governors, two of whom respectively lost their last re-election bids.

The roll-call included one-term governors Gboyega Oyetola (Osun) and Bello Matawalle (Zamfara), alongside their two-term counterparts, Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Dave Umahi (Ebonyi), and Nyesom Wike (Rivers).

The IPAC National Chairman, Yabagi Sani, in a chat with Newsmen, took issue with Tinubu’s choices, particularly after his struggle for Nigeria’s return to democracy in the 1990s.

“How can you come and then embark on policies that you know are anti-people and you now put people that you know?” he said.

“Some of the people that he put as ministers were rejected by the people; some of them contested and they were rejected.

“So, how can you bring them back through the back door again and say they must preside over the affairs of the people? That’s not the kind of country we want to run. We must begin to give Nigerians confidence.”

According to him, no Nigerian would say they are impressed by the President’s ministerial list.

“I’m disappointed – awfully disappointed – because, like I said, Mr President, Tinubu, is behaving differently from what I expected of him,” he said.

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