The Labour Party (LP) and its flag bearer in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, have kicked against President Bola Tinubu offering board slots to state governors, including those elected on the platform of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and LP.
At a meeting of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) in Abuja on Tuesday night, NGF Chairman, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq said Tinubu asked the forum to nominate competent persons to serve in the boards and parastatals of Federal Government agencies which were dissolved last month.
Governor Abdulrazaq, in a communique, said the members of the forum resolved to commend the President for extending an opportunity to the governors to nominate board members across the party lines.
But the Chief Spokesman for the Obi-Datti Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, described the move as a “gimmick” to lure the opposition governments and chieftains into APC.
