President Tinubu’s Appointees from the North must take a stand – Matawalle

Oru Leonard 

Hon Minister of State, Defence has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Appointees from the North to take a stand in defending the present administration.

Matawalle said this while reacting to comment made by Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, a Special Adviser on Political Matters in the Presidency who took to his page on it to express a different position on the Minister’s response to the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), attack on President Tinubu.

In Matawalle’s statement to the media, Dr. Baba-Ahmed said the Minister’s stand against the unjust and spurious attack against the administration of President Tinubu “that is working very hard to reposition our country and economy for better as ‘ill-advised’.” He suggested that H.E. Matawalle could have done a better job in my defence of the administration where he has the rare honour to serve as a Minister.

According to Matawalle, “Dr. Baba-Ahmed’s relationship and affinity with Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), is well-known. The fact now is that he is an appointee of the administration as Special Adviser and it is incumbent on him to work for the success of the government he is part of, protect and defend the government against unjust and vicious attacks from those who hide under ethnic and other primordial interests to heat up the polity for myopic reasons.”

“It is pertinent to state that every appointee of President Tinubu including Dr. Baba-Ahmed owe the government a copious duty to promote, elucidate and advance the good works and commendable efforts of the government across all sectors.
“As appointees of the government from the North, we must all take a stand, be unequivocal and be counted in the roll of honours for our support and work for the success of the administration we are serving. This is not the time to keep quiet in the face of intimidation and misrepresentation of the efforts and achievements of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR . We must stand up to be counted for being on the part of government or take our exit.” The Minister of State, Defence opined.