The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has raised the alarm over what it described as an ‘appointment fiasco’ in the President Bola Tinubu administration.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC said the National Assembly must establish whether the President is still fit to discharge the duties of his office.
The party said it is alarmed by an episode in the affairs of the Federal Government, where a man publicly removed from office by presidential directive reportedly continues to occupy that same office and still hold meetings with senior officials of the same government.
According to the ADC, if the reports concerning the Border Communities Development Agency, BCDA, are true, then this is no longer about one disputed appointment, but something far more disturbing.
Parts of the statement read, “Who is actually in charge of the Nigerian Presidency? When a President announces the appointment of one person and another simply ignores that directive and carries on in office, Nigeria is no longer witnessing administrative confusion. We are witnessing a struggle for control of the Presidency itself.
“The BCDA episode cannot be dismissed as an isolated incident because it follows a growing and disturbing pattern. Nigerians are still watching in bewilderment, the embarrassing spectacle of the so-called phantom Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), a government agency that officially did not exist, yet somehow operated at the highest level of government, and conducted itself with the confidence of a legitimate institution.
“It was only when allegations emerged of
