Daniel Bwala, a spokesman for Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate in the last election, has accused Minister of State Festus Keyamo of attempting to ambush President-elect Bola Tinubu for a ministerial position.
Bwala was responding to Keyamo’s claim that President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of a minister of state was unconstitutional.
He predicted that Keyamo’s desperation and scheming would ruin his chance.
Recall how Keyamo described the position of Minister of State as an anomaly and unconstitutional?
He bemoaned the fact that most of his colleagues had been laid off in the previous eight years, but many had not had the courage to speak up.
Keyamo read this in his speech at the valedictory session of the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Buhari to mark the end of the administration.
Reacting, Bwala tweeted: “He wants to ambush Tinubu to give him a substantive ministerial role, hence his argument that Buhari appointing him as minister of state is unconstitutional.
“That’s exactly how he wanted the role of AGF and went to the NASS confirmation hearing and was answering in this manner “If I become AGF” It got PMB’s chief of staff mad and they gave him an inconsequential role first under Niger Delta, the substantive minister then allegedly complained and he was further re-assigned to labour as “under secretary’ aka minister of state. Sources close to Tinubu revealed.
“My take is that desperation and scheming are killers of opportunity.”
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