Solomon Dalung, former minister of youth and sports, has described the inner circle around President Bola Tinubu as more dangerous, sophisticated, and ambitious than the group that influenced ex-President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Speaking on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, on Tuesday, Dalung, who served in Buhari’s cabinet from 2015 to 2019, noted that while Buhari’s government was controlled by a clique, Tinubu’s cabal poses a greater threat to governance due to their advanced political knowledge and strategic expertise.
“Of course, President Muhammadu Buhari’s government had cabals. That is known and that I have attested to,” Dalung said. “But I am saying that President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabals were made up of people who were not quite informed, with little experience in politics, public administration, and governance.”
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According to Dalung, Buhari’s cabal operated with a limited understanding of power dynamics and focused primarily on personal gain.
“Their activities were more or less limited to their parochial view of understanding power relations and exchanging hands to help themselves with the public purse,” he explained.
He argued that the ambition and expertise of Tinubu’s advisers could have serious consequences for the presidency.
The former minister labeled Tinubu’s cabal as the most dangerous in Nigeria’s history, citing their mastery of power manipulation and their ability to isolate the president from alternative perspectives.
“Since they are an ambitious set of people, the presidency will suffer more than that of President Muhammadu Buhari because of their capacity to manipulate power, their capacity to build a security barricade around the president and stifle information from getting to him except that which they want, and then their control of those they would allow to access the president,” Dalung added.
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