{"id":3521,"date":"2023-10-20T12:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2023-10-20T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:57:49","slug":"atikus-aide-knocks-tinubu-over-size-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/10\/20\/atikus-aide-knocks-tinubu-over-size-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku\u2019s Aide Knocks Tinubu Over Size Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Bwala, a former media aide to the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has slammed President Bola Tinubu for constituting a large government.<\/p>\n<p>He accused Tinubu of constituting the largest cabinet and bloated government in Nigeria\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that the president has failed to move the country forward despite his large government and influence of human rights advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X, Bwala said the country can\u2019t move forward when Tinubu is not working to unify the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Tinubu\u2019s appointments are nepotism-based.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cLargest cabinet since the inception of the Republic; Bloated government since the return of democracy; Largest media aids to the point of superimposition of roles; @officialABAT arguably influenced the media careers of 60 percent of journalists in the country, 40 percent of human right advocates and CSO founders; heck he even owns a TV house and a newspaper company; YET the optics aren\u2019t good and the narrative can\u2019t be changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know why? No leader can move a country that he is not consciously working towards unifying and to give everybody a sense of belonging. The nepotism is ultra high and pro max.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Bwala, a former media aide to the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has slammed President Bola Tinubu for constituting a large government. He accused Tinubu of constituting the largest cabinet and bloated government in Nigeria\u2019s history. He pointed out that the president has failed to move the country forward despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3530,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}