Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, knocked President Bola Tinubu’s plan to select 48 ministers on Thursday, calling it inappropriate in light of the country’s economic difficulties.
This was declared by Afenifere in a statement issued at the conclusion of a meeting held in Ogun State at the home of its leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo.
The group’s Secretary General,Chief Sola Ebisen, made the statement available to journalists, in which Afenifere criticised Tinubu’s extensive cabinet list as reckless and “most bizarre.”
The communique read, “Afenifere condemns as most unconscionable that a government pleading for understanding and sacrifices from the people in the aftermath of a sudden and harsh removal of petrol subsidy and other cowboy economic policies, would present such unprecedented humongous list of 48 ministers and other such appointments for political appeasement in search of legitimacy.
“Afenifere noted that it is most bizarre that the overwhelming majority of Nigerians, whose daily preoccupation is how to eke a living and sometimes lay their heads wherever their tired limbs are bent, are subjected to the spectacle of opulence and irresponsibility by their political leaders.”
Afenifere lamented the fact that the legislature, which should have checked Tinubu, proved helpless “in the face of this executive rascality, the likes of which make the hapless people see no difference and jump on the streets singing praises of unconstitutional power adventurers.”
“This interim period in the political life of the country has further abysmally exposed the pretences and hypocrisy of those who have often paid lip service to progressive inclinations as rapacious power mongers without a thought for the people,” the Afenifere said.
