By Cosmas Nkerenwem
. Kola Ologbodiyan
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken exception to the slipshod manner in which some dead Nigerians were appointed alongside 209 chairpersons and 1,258 members into Boards by the Federal Government. The late Senator Francis Okpozu, who died in December 2016 last year and to whose family the Presidency issued a condolence message was appointed as Chairman of the Nigerian Press Council.
Others are Chief Donald Ugbaja who died on November 2017, but was appointed as member of Consumers Protection Council, while Rev Christopher Utov, who died in March 2017 was appointed as member, Nigeria Institute of Social and Economic Research.
Reacting, Mr Kola Ologbodiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, said the appointment shows gross incompetence, high level of confusion and lack of organisational skill in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, led government.
The statement reads in part:
“The development has further confirmed PDP’s position that the APC administration is completely confused, disorganised and grossly incompetent. Nigerians can now see why the nation’s economy has been in shambles in the last two years. When we say that this government is completely inept, some Nigerians did not know to which level, but now they do.
“This inability to tidy up a simple issue of list of 209 appointees has completely exposed the extent the APC government is bereft of simple organisational skills to manage a country like Nigeria, which is in dire need of development.
“How on earth can a government that cannot compile a common list handle intricate issues of national planning and budgeting; issues of health, education, aviation, agriculture, infrastructure and management of the huge civil service?
“How can they possibly initiate and successfully implement national and international instruments for national development in today’s competitive world? This also explains why nothing has been working under the APC government. Furthermore, the mix up in the list also exposes the corruption in the APC government.”
“The fact is that the government of our dear country has been in wrong hands in the last two years and the situation will continue to worsen unless the nation is rescued from them in 2019.”
