Ministerial list: Don’t appoint ex-governors, they failed their states – President Tinubu told

Daniel Bwala, an aide to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election has advised President Tinubu on who makes the list to his cabinet as he prepares to name his ministers.

According to Bwala, Tinubu's plan for Nigeria will be dead on arrival if 10 percent of his cabinet ministers are former governors.

Speaking further, Bwala stressed that 90 percent of former governors in Nigeria failed while they were in office.

Tweeting, Bwala charged Tinubu to inject new faces into his cabinet if he wants to move Nigeria forward.

He wrote: “If the names of former governors in his cabinet constitute more than 10 percent of the whole, then we would know he doesn’t have plans for Nigeria.

“Firstly, 90 percent of former governors in Nigeria have failed in governing their states where they commanded absolute powers.

“Some former governors have even gone on to fail as ministers in the past administration.

“When he sits in his cabinet meeting, there shouldn’t be old faces of the past administration in the room.

“He has more than enough manpower if he seriously wants to move this nation forward for at least 6 months remaining.”