Shettima, Ribadu, Akume, Northerners In Govt Reduced To Choristers Only Praising Tinubu – Lukman

Northerners in the federal government have been reduced to choristers singing praises of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the detriment of the region’s interests, a former National Vice Chairman, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman has said.

GWG.ng reports that Lukman a close associate of Mallam Nasir El-Rufai made the assertion in a statement titled , ‘Explosive North: Open Letter to Northern Politicians.’

Lukman, recently resigned his membership of the APC citing among others that the party under Tinubu had drifted from its core values.

In the statement Lukman said that Northerners in the Tinubu government have become like “choir group poorly singing ‘on your mandate we stand’ irrespective of the shaky and staggering reality being demonstrated by the mandate holder.”

The statement said: “So far, one year has pass into President Asiwaju Tinubu administration. No doubt, Northern political leaders are becoming weaker and more disorganised. Even the Vice President, Sen. Kashim Shettima GCON, who is the highest office holder and by virtue of that should have served as the needed rallying point for Northern politicians, is anything but a political leader.

“With every respect, hardly any official of the current administration of President Asiwaju Tinubu from the North, including Sen. Shettima, is willing and able to take the needed risk to defend the interest of the North. Painfully, what is emerging is that most leaders from the North are more concern about self-preservation in the government.

“Because of self-preservation, already scheming for 2027 has commenced. Within the Presidency there are indicative cold war dynamics and positioning, which is alleged to be responsible for the praise-singing disposition of Vice President Shettima. The National Security Adviser (NSA), Mal. Nuhu Ribadu has devalued an exalted office almost to the status of a Protocol Office to President Asiwaju Tinubu.

“Virtually all other Northern politicians holding offices in this government, including the Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. George Akume are absentee public servants who have been reduced to members of a choir group poorly singing ‘on your mandate we stand’ irrespective of the shaky and staggering reality being demonstrated by the mandate holder with reference to poor service delivery and crashing living conditions in the last one year,” Lukman said in his reference to northerners in the Tinubu government.

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