Daniel Bwala, the aide to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described the appointment of the ministerial designates of President Bola Tinubu as putting square pegs in round holes.
Recall that President Tinubu had on Wednesday assigned 45 portfolios to ministers-designate who will be sworn in on Monday.
Speaking during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Thursday night, Bwala said some of the positions the President assigned to his ministers are mismatched.
The PDP chieftain asserted that some of the portfolios assigned indicated that square pegs were put in round holes, adding that there are people who are not competent enough to be on the list.
Bwala also faulted the appointments of Hannatu Musawa as the Minister of Culture and former Governor of Zamfara, Bello Matawalle, as the Minister of State for Defence.
He said, “I have reservations about so many of Tinubu’s ministers. I will caption my reservation as square pegs in round holes and the challenge of Renewed Hope. There are people who are not competent enough, in my view, to be on the list.
“There are people who are competent but their portfolios are mismatched. Hannatu for example is made the minister of culture while her counterpart, Betta Edu is made minister of humanitarian.
“You have a president who believes he needs to invade Niger, probably to extend that to Mali and Burkina Faso. The president as the chairman of ECOWAS is committed to fighting. There may be humanitarian crises around the borders. That is exactly where she is from. She is very familiar with humanitarian issues. Hannatu would have fit into humanitarian.
“Secondly, the minister of state defence was a former governor who all through the four years his rating in fighting insecurity is 5 over 100. And now you made him minister of state to administer what?”
