Group Urges Tinubu To Rethink Certain Policies

A political pressure organisation, Mandate Group, has called on President Bola Tinubu to rethink certain policies and actions of his administration in the interest of sociopolitical peace of the country.

The leader of Mandate Group in Kano State, Alhaji Saleh Umar, made the call while speaking on some thorny issues, which he said, were inimical to the survival of the people of the country, especially Northerners.

He said the group, led at the national level by Alhaji Yusuf Garba Ali and Chief Bisi Akande, found it necessary to voice out its opinion on the matter, with a view to bringing sanity in the way and manner the president was executing his policies.

Alhaji Umar expressed dissatisfaction with the inability of the president to satisfy the yearnings of the people.

He cited the appointment of some persons into public positions, whom he said were not relevant to their movement. He stated that Daniel Bwala and Amb. Bianca Ojukwu, among others, were appointed into various positions by the president adding that many people who were anti-government or anti-Tinubu himself were brought in the government, relegating those who suffered for and supported the president during his campaigns.

He suggested that it was high time the president revisited his appointments by putting the right people in the right places in an effort to pay back his real lovers and supporters in a positive manner.

He said people like Alhaji Garba Yusuf Ali and Chief Bisi Akande should not be relegated to the background as they played vital roles in the success of President Tinubu’s political journey into presidency.

He noted that the duo were close to Tinubu before his emergence as president in 2023, “but since he became president, it seems he turned his back against them.”