One of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirants in the 2023 General elections, Dele Momodu has again said one of the reasons why the current administration of Nigeria led by President Tinubu is doing badly is because political appointment is based on compensation rather than merit saying most members of the presidents executive council do not have good pedigree as regards to public service.
Dele Momodu who is also an entrepreneur and social commentator made the statement last night on the Channels Television (Politics Today) program.
He added that Nigerians are one of the greatest human beings on earth meanwhile the best brains are not being utilized in the country, lamenting that Nigeria cannot continue to operate based on compensation at a time when the right people are needed to salvage the nation from economic collapse.
‘’I am someone who believes in a star-studded cabinet, if you ask me today, President Ibrahim Babangida minus the June 12 annulment, he has one of the best cabinets in Nigeria, he tried his best. Obasanjo, baba also tried his best to assemble the best. Today and God is my witness, today if you ask me to name 10 ministers in Tinubu’s cabinet and to tell you what they did or did not do before they were appointed I will struggle, that is the truth and ask an average person and I don’t consider myself average not to.
‘’Look what we have today is that, someone transferred the Lagos template to Abuja and that’s why we are failing.
‘’Nigeria parades on the greatest human beings on planet earth, I’ve traveled a bit there’s nowhere up Australia that I did not meet Nigerians doing great things. Where are those people in today’s Nigeria? It is either you are the son of, the daughter of, he said.
‘’Nigeria cannot continue to operate on the basis of compensation, I must compensate my friend, I must compensate my former schoolmate, no, Nigeria right now is playing world cup and you are picking weak players, no, we can’t do that and that is why I wrote that letter.’’
He maintained that ‘’A lot of the people around there now, their lives totally depend on Tinubu, they cannot tell him the truth. I know what a lot of them say behind when they see us ah you know we can’t talk ohh, ahh if we talk ohh that is the truth and I am one of the people right from when we were in exile when he was governor for eight years I will tell him, I will write letter and I am a letter writer anyways. I write letters all the time, I wrote to President Obasanjo, I wrote to Buhari, I wrote to all of them, Jonathan and that is why I am also writing to a man that I know we have come way back if he is watching we knows that I have always told him the truth.’’