Ahead of Bola Tinubu’s inauguration as President on the 29th of May, the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has urged him to ensure he assembles only people with capacity, character, and track records of performance into his cabinet irrespective of their political backgrounds in order to hit the ground running from day one.
Consequently, he has called on aspirants jostling for the various National Assembly leadership positions to respect the decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the President-Elect to enable the incoming administration succeed in delivering its campaign promises made to Nigerians
Africa Today News, New York reports that Governor Wike, who is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), made these calls while speaking in Kaduna State on Saturday at a public book presentation, ‘Putting People First: The El-Rufai Years’, where he also commended El-Rufai for championing the zoning of the presidency to the southern part of the country for equity and fairness.
The book, written by a Kaduna-based Journalist, Emmanuel Ado, is a compilation of published articles and interviews focusing on El-Rufai’s eight-year tenure as an appraisal of his core values, mission, and achievements as governor of Kaduna.
Notwithstanding belonging to different political parties, El-Rufai said he shared same political ideology with his Rivers State counterpart.
Those in attendance include Senator Uba Sani, Prince Arthur Eze, traditional rulers, top government officials, and captains of industry.
Africa Today News, New York had earlier reported that the APC organ had zoned the Senate President to the South-South, Senator Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); Deputy Senate President to the North-West, Senator Barau Jibrin (Kano) and this continues to spark controversy ahead of the inauguration of the 10th NASS in June.
Others are the Speaker of the House of Representatives (North-West) – Abass Tajudeen (Kaduna), and Deputy Speaker South East – Ben Kalu (Abia).