Obi tackles Tinubu for allocating job slots to governors

President Bola Tinubu’s offer of board seats to state governors, including those elected on the platforms of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, has been criticized by the Labour Party’s presidential candidate at the just February presidential election, Peter Obi.

The President requested the governors to nominate qualified individuals to serve on the boards and parastatals of Federal Government agencies that were dissolved last month, according to Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the governor of Kwara State and chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, who made the revelation at a meeting of the forum on Tuesday night in Abuja.

A few weeks after taking office as the nation’s president, Tinubu announced the dissolution of the boards of over 153 agencies, parastatals, institutions, and government-owned businesses.

The 209 boards that former President Muhammadu Buhari established in December 2017 were among the dissolved boards.

New nominations are anticipated to fill no less than 2,000 open posts on the boards.

Important organisations include the North-East Development Commission, which has 12 open board seats, the Independent Corrupt Practises and Other Related Offences Commission, which has seven board seats open, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, which has seven seats, the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, which has 21 seats, the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, which has 12, the National Universities Commission, which has 21, and the Transmission Commission of Nigeria, which

The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, Nigerian Meteorological Agency, Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Nigerian Police Trust Fund, Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency, Federal Institute of Industrial Research, National Centre for Technology Management, and others are also included.