Labour Party tears Tinubu apart over ministerial list

<p>The Labour Party said Tinubu's ministerial nominees were an assemblage of recycled and anti-democratic elements.</p>, <span>President Bola Tinubu Presidency</span>, <h2>The leadership of the Labour Party has torn apart President Bola Tinubu's ministerial list forwarded to the Senate on Thursday, July 27, 2023.</h2>, <p>The President sent 28 names to the Senate for screening and confirmation after weeks of speculation and heightened anticipation.</p>, <p>The first batch of the ministerial nominees included the immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and his counterparts from Kaduna, Ebonyi, and Jigawa - Nasir El-Rufai, Dave Umahi, and Badaru Abubakar, respectively.</p>, <p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Women Leader, Betta Edu, led the contingent of seven women on Tinubu's list, which also included the only APC female presidential aspirant at the last convention, Uju Ohanenye and deputy spokesperson for the dissolved Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Council, Hannatu Musawa.</p>, <p>However, the announcement has continued to generate mixed reactions from Nigerians, with some critics lamenting the decision of the President not to include those they considered 'technocrats' on the much-awaited list.</p>, <img src="https://cdn-fmcrawler.shalltry.com/public/prod/files/images/2023-07-31/original/5a66cb9e-078d-43e4-b41f-526e0e9e51f9.jpg">, <span>Nigerian senators with Senate President Godswill Akpabio (left) Tope Brown</span>, <h2>Labour Party joins criticism</h2>, <p>Reacting to the ministerial list, the Labour Party accused Tinubu of assembling ‘recycled, spent forces and anti-democratic elements.’</p>, <p>A statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Obiora Ifoh, in Abuja on Sunday, July 30, 2023, noted that splitting ministerial nominations into batches like the President did on Thursday runs foul of the Nigerian constitution.</p>, <p>The party also claimed Nigerians felt underwhelmed when they saw names of some ‘failed and clueless politicians’ on the list as again