Solomon Dalung, a former minister, says the cabal surrounding President Bola Tinubu is a lot more dangerous, sophisticated and ambitious than the “clique that cocooned” ex-President Muhammadu Buhari.
Dalung was Buhari’s youth and sports minister from 2015 to
2019.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday,
Dalung who had previously stated that Buhari was beholden to a clique who ran
his government behind the scenes, said the close-knit group of people around
Tinubu are more pernicious.
He added that the Buhari cabal was less educated and lacked
experience in politics and governance, while those around Tinubu are
“sophisticated, ambitious, and educated, with sound knowledge of power
dynamics”.
Dalung said the Tinubu cabal is the most dangerous in
Nigeria’s history.
“Of course, President Muhammadu Buhari’s government had
cabals. That is known and that I have attested to,” he 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.
“And so, 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.
“But President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s cabal is made up of a
sophisticated and ambitious group of people who had a long history in power.
They are experienced, they are educated, and so they have sound knowledge of
what power is.
“And 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 also build security
barricade around the president and stifle information from getting to the
president except that which they want, and then the control of those they would
want to access the president.
“These cabals are masters, and therefore, are more dangerous
than any cabal in the history of this country.”
Sunday Dare replaced Dalung as sports minister in 2019.
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