Ahead of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 100th day in office, the Convener of the Arewa Think Tank Group, Muhammad Alhaji Yakubu, has noted that Northerners cannot accuse the President of nepotism as exhibited by the immediate past administration.
However, Yakubu said even if nepotism existed under the current administration, Northerners have no moral justification to accuse Tinubu of nepotism because when such was prevalent under former President Muhammadu Buhari, the majority of them kept quiet without criticising the former president.
In a statement he issued on Friday and made available to newsmen in Kaduna to appraise the administration of President Tinubu in his 100 days in office, the Think Tank group expressed satisfaction with the warning given by the President to the recently appointed ministers to be hardworking and of good conduct or get fired from office.
The Arewa Think Tank admitted that in one of his published stories, he advised Tinubu not to appoint former governors as ministers, even though some of them have been appointed. He is satisfied that any of them could be sacked in the event of poor performances.
According to him, from all indications, President Tinubu meant business in taking the country to the promised land, just as he appealed to every Nigerian to cooperate with the President to achieve his goals.
He said from the appointments the President has made so far, there is no element of nepotism, adding that he will even encourage Tinubu to do nepotism because “No individual, group, or region should hold Tinubu hostage since his coming to power was divine and by dint of hard work”.