Former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has urged President Tinubu to weed out what he described as “kakistrocrats” dominating his presidency.
A kakistocracy is a system of government run by the worst, least competent, or most corrupt citizens.
In an interview with Arise TV on Wednesday, August 26, Ndume said the latest fake agency scandal proves that the Tinubu government is being run by questionable characters.
The Borno South senator argued that the presence of “incompetent” officials in the Tinubu administration was responsible for some of the controversies and embarrassments confronting the government.
“Already, I’ve been vindicated on that, as to saying that my concern is that the president has so many kakistrocrats that dominate the presidency.
And I still maintain that unless he does something about it, they will continue to mess him up.
You can imagine, right now, it’s now a known thing in Nigeria; we had a fake agency that operated and even had an office, and they don’t know, they don’t know.” Africans& Diaspora
Recall that last Friday, President Tinubu ordered the arrest of one Nwabueze George over the alleged operation of a fake government agency within the premises of the SGF office. George was the national coordinator of the disputed National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office.
The president also ordered the immediate suspension of three permanent secretaries following findings by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
Musa Aliyu, ICPC chairman, said the discovery was made during a broader investigation into the activities of the alleged fake Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) and other procedural weaknesses in government.