RIVERS: Questions over existence of APC as party’s Tinubu appoints another state PDP chieftain Federal Commissioner
*You have helped kill whole state structure of APC in Nigeria, President told
By OUR REPORTER
“If you want to show the Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership style, this is not how. Nigerians wanted Tinubu to show Buhari’s leadership style in Kano, Zanfara, Plateau, Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa by allowing electorate to vote for candidates of their choices across the parties. That was what Buhari did and it was not anti-party but best way to use the electoral system to unite Nigerians for development.”
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of Ambassador Desmond Akawor, former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, to serve as a Federal Commissioner of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), pending the confirmation of the Nigerian Senate.
The new RMAFC Federal Commissioner, who represents Rivers State, is being appointed following the tragic demise of the immediate past RMAFC Federal Commissioner from Rivers State, Hon. Asondu Wenah Temple earlier this month.
A statement issued by presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, said Akawor is a decorated public servant who has served the nation as Nigeria’s Ambassador to South Korea; Minister of State of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); Sole Administrator of the Greater Port Harcourt Development Authority; CEO, Niger Delta River Basin Development Authority, and Executive Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (Engineering & Technical Services).
Tinubu tasked the new Federal Commissioner to deploy his robust experience across tiers of government toward the comprehensive reformation of processes that would ensure the most efficient and productive utilization of allocations to all three tiers of government in Nigeria.
However, the latest appointment of yet another PDP chieftain to office that members of All Progressives Congress in Rivers State should more reasonably occupy has raised a lot of questions.
Tinubu, leader of the APC, is viewed beyond his claim of government of national unity as what he does in Rivers is helping in the opposition in PDP in its total extermination of his party, APC, and to the personal interest of one man, Nyesom Wike, as against interest of the massive APC population in the state.
Reportedly, Wike, PDP who still struggles to dictate the tune in an opposition PDP where Atiku Abubakar is leader, has since been compensated by Tinubu with Rivers slot of Minister for helping kill his own APC in the state.
“Tinubu is PDP in Rivers but APC in Abuja. How does a politician justify and defend this? By this, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s claim of how Tinubu went behind of the AC they both formed in 2007 to work wmfor PDP’s President Umar Yar’Adua is confirmed.
“Nigeria now governed as it pleases the personal interest of the man in the Office of the President, not as it pleases Nigeria because, there is no way he can convince even non-APC members that he us himself not doing anti-party to his own party that he leads with all of this.
“If you want to show the Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership style, this is not how. Nigerians wanted Tinubu to show Buhari’s leadership style in Kano, Zanfara, Plateau, Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa by allowing electorate to vote for candidates of their choices across the parties. That was what Buhari did and it was not anti-party but best way to use the electoral system to unite Nigerians for development.
“Practically, Tinubu by his actions, has shown that he is comfortable and proud that he helps kill a whole state structure of APC, his own party, in Rivers State with same treatment done in Oyo State where aside supporting PDP to win governorship, he went ahead to give ministerial slot to a non-APC member,” a concerned party man in Rivers complained.
