The appointment of a Minister of State for Petroleum Resources from the oil-rich Niger Delta region, according to Yabagi Sani, national chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), is sending the “wrong signal.”
Sani, a guest on Thursday’s Sunrise Daily breakfast programme on Channels Television, claimed that confining the appointment to a specific state will instill a sense of entitlement among the Niger Delta’s residents.
On Wednesday, 45 ministerial designations had their portfolios released by President Bola Tinubu. Heineken Lokpobiri, who was born in Bayelsa, was appointed by the President as the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources.
