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The All Progressives Congress (APC) successful Rivers State has condemned arsenic “most unpatriotic” the telephone by a United Kingdom-based group, Concerned Nigerians successful the Diaspora (CND-UK), demanding the suspension of the curate of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo.
The party’s spokesperson successful the state, Mr Darlington Nwauju, described the work by the radical arsenic “idle speech and politically motivated blackmail” aimed astatine discrediting the minister’s increasing estimation for show and innovation successful nationalist office.
In a connection issued yesterday Nwauju said the CND-UK’s allegation that Dr Tunji-Ojo was leveraging his power to predominate governmental structures up of the 2027 elections was “the Olympian tallness of preposterousness.”
He noted that politics, by its precise nature, involves power and alignment, insisting that the Interior Minister’s governmental activities stay wrong acceptable bounds of conduct.
“So agelong arsenic the Minister’s activities arsenic a person bash not spell beyond the minimum acceptable benchmarks of behaviour and modular signifier arsenic a nationalist bureau holder, however does that basal successful the mode of the CND-UK?” Nwauju queried.
“How does that halt them from supporting their ain preferred politicians? Is CND-UK and its convener, Dr Abanikanda Olumoro, trying to vitiate the rights of Dr Tunji-Ojo to subordinate with different Nigerians?”
The Rivers APC spokesperson further questioned the patriotism of the group, noting that it failed to recognise the interior minister’s achievements successful repositioning the ministry and restoring credibility to Nigeria’s planetary image.
“Even looking astatine their remarks astir selling Nigeria, I inquire which Minister successful the existent furniture has been a amended salesman of the Nigerian marque done his committedness to duty, innovative ideas, frugality and adjacent exceeding gross targets?” helium asked.
Nwauju said the radical had ne'er raised its dependable erstwhile Nigeria faced years of inefficiency and embarrassment implicit the passport issuance crisis, but present recovered its dependable aft the concern was resolved nether Tunji-Ojo’s leadership.
He accused the CND-UK of acting arsenic a beforehand for “desperate governmental actors” seeking to smear the minister’s name, adding that the group’s notation to the 2020 probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was misplaced.
“It is incorrect to accidental that Prof Kemebradikumo Pondei staged a walkout connected the House Committee,” helium said.
“I was portion and parcel of that process, and what really happened was that Prof Pondei gasped for enactment owed to the avalanche of questions and tonnes of grounds helium could not contradict. Making notation to a study by the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) connected this taxable is incoherent and shows a deficiency of owed diligence connected the portion of the CND-UK.”
Nwauju maintained that the Interior Ministry’s show nether Tunji-Ojo had “positively marketed Nigeria,” citing reforms successful passport processing, migration services, and the correctional system.
He urged the radical to verify its claims done the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act alternatively of spreading unverified allegations astir the ownership presumption of New Planet Project Ltd, a institution antecedently linked to the curate earlier helium assumed office.
“The CND-UK should usage the FOI Act to get the facts and discontinue this needless merry-go-round,” helium stated.
Concluding, Nwauju said the run for Tunji-Ojo’s suspension “speaks volumes of the hatchet occupation primed by jealous governmental opponents who are bewildered by the translation achieved by the Interior Ministry and cannot find a mode astir discrediting his ministerial credentials.”
He urged Nigerians astatine location and overseas to disregard the work and proceed to enactment efforts to betterment captious nationalist institutions nether President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
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