Ministerial Nominees: ‘Buhari Insensitive To Youths, Women’

Former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has criticized the list of ministerial nominees cleared by the National Assembly last week, saying the composition shows that President Muhammadu Buhari is insensitive to women and youths.
Omokri, a former Personal Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, expressed disappointment that there is was no sign that people the President has assembled as cabinet members will deliver change to Nigeria.
He Omokri made the criticism when he spoke from the United Kingdom, London to be precise, during a live national television programme monitored by The Tide in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital; noting that under this same cabinet Nigeria became the world headquarter for extreme poverty.
“There is no spark of hope that people in the cabinet can deliver change to Nigeria. The average age of this cabinet is 59 years. Bloomberg said it is 60 years, but when I calculated it myself it is actually 59 years. This is the oldest cabinet in Nigeria’s history.
“So what is the spark of hope there? Few days ago the new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson appointed a 39 year Nigerian, Kemi  Badenotch into his cabinet as a minister. There is no single youth on the Buhari’s cabinet, not one. The youngest person on that cabinet is my age mate.
The lawyer and author also faulted the cabinet for not bringing more women on board like previous administrations of Olesegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan did when they held sway in government.
According to him, “There are seven women in that cabinet (Buahari’s), representing a near 18 per cent. Former President Goodluck Jonathan had 35 per cent of his cabinet, women and former President Olusegun Obasanjo had 28 per cent of his cabinet, women.
“So what is the spark of brilliance? Babatunde Fashola was in that cabinet before. What was he? I mean Minister for Darkness. How many roads did he (Fashola) build? How many power stations did he build?