Presidency fires back at Ali Ndume over comment on appointment

• The presidency has faulted Borno South Senator Ali Ndume’s claims that President Bola Tinubu’s appointment was lopsided
• Bayo Onanuga, the president’s special adviser on info and strategy, worthy that Ndume’s outburst was hypocritical and deceptive
• In response to Onanuga, the Borno senator did no longer disclose his interviewer that two of his brothers were factual being appointed into the NNPC Restricted management by President Tinubu

Aso-Rock, Abuja – The presidency has tackled Ali Ndume, the senator representing Borno South, over his allegation that President Bola Tinubu’s appointments so a long way had been lopsided and that it would peaceable be corrected.

Bayo Onanuga, the president’s special adviser on info and strategy, maintained that the Borno senator’s allegation was hypocritical and deceptive. In response to Onanuga, Ndume is a Nigerian politician who’s allergic to facts and addicted to theatrics.

Onanuga’s observation was a reaction to Ndume’s allegation that President Tinubu has been favouring a specific dwelling in his appointments, ensuing in debate amongst the political class.

The presidency outlined that the senator’s outburst on TV about the alleged lopsided appointments by President Tinubu reeked of selective thought and hypocrisy.

Tinubu appoints two of Ndume’s kinsmen to NNPC

Onanuga worthy that the Borno senator was making an are attempting to display conceal himself as a factual authority on equity but did no longer undergo in tips to reveal his interviewer that two of his kinsmen were at the moment appointed into the Nigerian National Petroleum Firm (NNPC) Restricted top management.

In response to the presidency, the at the moment appointed chairman of NNPC Restricted by President Tinubu was from the senatorial district of Senator Ndume in Borno.

He then puzzled how two of Ndume’s kinsmen made it to the NNPC foremost roles if President Tinubu and “his surrogates’ choices were so ‘tribal.”

The presidential aide accused the senator of consistently participating in public rhetoric with out taking his time to seem at the facts.

The presidency’s statement read in phase:

“His behavior of firing half of-baked criticisms—simplest to be contradicted by facts—proves he’s more attracted to headline-chasing, rabble rousing, and stoking divisive narratives than offering positive criticism,”

Are Tinubu’s appointments in accordance with benefit?

Onanuga then reaffirmed President Tinubu’s dedication to an all-inclusive administration, in conjunction with that the presidential appointments are in accordance with benefit, integrity and national spread.

The presidential aide emphasised that Tinubu was dedicated to leading a executive that affords room for all Nigerians regardless of their ethnic or regional affiliation.

He told that the Borno senator ought to peaceable elevate public discourse and distance himself from misinformation, warning that such behaviour of disservice to the country was least anticipated from a senator.

Onanuga’s corpulent statement is below:

Presidency publicizes Tinubu’s toddle thought

Legit.ng earlier reported that the presidency disclosed that President Bola Tinubu will be travelling out of Nigeria to France on Wednesday, April 2.

In response to a press initiate by the president’s spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu will be in Paris on a two-week working consult with.

President Tinubu is anticipated to learn the achievements of his administration in the closing two years, sooner than his anniversary, all over his take care of in France.

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