- Safiu Kehinde
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) coalition party has slammed President Bola Tinubu over his appointment of former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the new Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria’s (FAAN) Board Chairman.
NPO Reported the inauguration of the new board on Wednesday in Abuja with Ganduje emerging as its chair.
This is coming barely two weeks after the former Kano State Governor resigned from his role as APC National Chairman, citing health concern as reason for his decision.
Reacting in a statement issued on its official X handle, the ADC accused Tinubu of rewarding his loyalists and cronies with unmerited political appointment.
In what it described as jamming round holes into square pegs, the coalition party slammed the President for allegedly turning FAAN into retirement homes for his cohorts.
The ADC further described the appointment as betrayal of every Nigerian who demands transparency and progress.
The statement read; “This appointment of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as Chairman of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is yet another slap in the face to Nigerians, a glaring example of President Tinubu’s reckless pattern of jamming round holes into square pegs is an insult to competence and integrity!
“Tinubu’s obsession with rewarding loyalists and cronies over merit is a fire that’s burning down Nigeria’s future.
“Ganduje’s track record screams mismanagement; deposing an emir for “insubordination,” dodging accountability, and allegedly stashing kickbacks, yet he’s deemed fit to oversee a critical sector like aviation? This isn’t leadership; it’s a shameless patronage racket!
“While capable youths rot in unemployment and our airports crumble under outdated infrastructure, Tinubu keeps propping up these old, disgraced warhorses, turning FAAN into a retirement home for the politically connected.
“This appointment isn’t just a misfit, it’s a betrayal of every Nigerian who demands transparency and progress. Tinubu’s government is dragging us backward, and if we don’t rise up, we’ll be stuck with leaders who see public office as a personal piggy bank, not a public trust!”
However, NPO Reports gathered that Tinubu had in January approved Ganduje’s appointment as the new FAAN Board Chairman.
Ganduje’s appointment was reportedly announced alongside other individuals including Felix Morka, a spokesperson of the APC who was appointed as the chairman of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa in Bayelsa State among numerous others.