₦airaland Forum

Keneking:
nonsense write-up.

- unbalanced and unfair criticism of the nomination of some of Nigeria's finest brains by the President.
- is the writer aware that Nigeria's balance sheet would be at its finest (despite low oil revenues) since independence at year-end.
- are they aware that he is fulfilling the constitutional requirement by appointing ministers across the federation?
- only technocrats can not drive the economy?

erunz:
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari +Top+News%29&rpc=401&pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true

theV0ice:


Buhari's selection process was complicated by the fact that he was constitutionally bound to select a minister from each of Nigeria's 36 states to reflect the character of a nation of 170 million people from 250 ethnic groups.

"Those expecting a list formed wholly of technocrats were being unrealistic," said Kayode Akindele, a political consultant and partner at private equity firm TIA capital. "He has a good mixture. You could have key portfolios with technocrats, which would help to drive reforms."

A cabinet that contains names like Dr Enelamah, Prof Adewole, Dr Kayode Fayemi, Prof Daramola, Dr Kachikwu, Kemi Adeosun, Prof Anwuka, Dr Aminat Ibrahim, Udo Udoma etc can't be refered to as a mediocre cabinet or a cabinet formed to compensate power blocks. Do they mean Udoma Udo Udoma lost all the knowledge he possessed simply because he ran for election and won twice? Do they mean Fayemi lost all his because he joined APC? or Amina Mohammed lost it because she worked with PDP? With this thinking, The stellar Dr Ibe Kachikwu will lose the tag of a technocrat by 2019 obviously. These guys sure need a dose of reality.

Even the politicians on the list like Fashola is a technocrat before being a politician and my man that they love to hate...Amaechi is no push over.

Buhari had to make a balance and i was pleasantly surprised he had the guts to drop names like Oyinlola, Bode Mustapha and Yemi Cardoso who were Obj's candidates then Tinubu's candidates like Wale Edun, Dele Alake and Rotimi Akeredolu.

Really those who were expecting a cabinet of 36 without politicians are very unrealistic. Even An American president won't try that otherwise Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell wouldn't have made it into George Bush Jr's cabinet.

jomoh:
You only mentioned 4 whereas PMB already has prof. Daramola, enelamah, kemi adeosun, dr kachikwu, prof adewole, prof anwuka, dr aminat ibrahim, dr enahaire. That is 8 already of the popular ones. There are still some from the north that are relatively unknown.

Now tell me apart from NOI, how many professors were in GEJ's cabinet.

theV0ice:
Don't mind the unrealistic people.

As if the moment you enter politics, you lose all the academic, business and working knowledge you acquired prior

neocortex:
Well, Buhari have no choice than to compensate those who bankrolled his electioneering campaigns.
His hands are tied.

FreeGlobe:
[size=14pt]Reuters forgot to add corrupt party people over reforms[/size]

SonOfEl:
Now the news does not suit your APShiit, you are crying woof...if it were GEJ or DEZIANI bashing, you will glorify "those damn Brits"..... Mumucious stupidity.

TRUTHTOPOWER:
British Ministers are career politicians. so it is in every parliamentary system. this never detracts from the ability to carry out reforms. Hillary Clinton, Obama, kerry, et al are all politicians and these never undermined their ability to carry out reforms. it is thus uncharitable to suggest that African politicians are incapable of carrying out reforms.

In the colonial era, Chief Awolowo as a politician surpassed the European technocracts sent to Nigeria in terms of ingenuity. In fact they despised Awo for referring to them as mediocre technocrats.

Keneking:
nonsense write-up.

- unbalanced and unfair criticism of the nomination of some of Nigeria's finest brains by the President.
- is the writer aware that Nigeria's balance sheet would be at its finest (despite low oil revenues) since independence at year-end.
- are they aware that he is fulfilling the constitutional requirement by appointing ministers across the federation?
- only technocrats can not drive the economy?

BALLOSKI:
you just don't know what a technocrat is.

lionduke:
Who dash am technocrat? Technocrats don`t end their lives with rat poison, They retire with honour, proud of their accomplishments.

erunz:
PEOPLE LIKE AMECHI AND THE ONE WHO DID NOT SIGN CHEQUE BUT BUILT BOREHOLE FOR #175M . I NO MENTION ANYBODY NAME O

Bevista:
Well, you should understand the context of that comment. I wasn't comparing PMB and GEJ government.

prettyboi1:
See how hatred would make you pull your brother down because of 'tribe', later now, mo'fus like you would be screaming 'racism' when white folks treat you anyhow. How won't they treat you anyhow when they've found out that people like you are ready to pull your kind down to lift them? Geez!

lionduke:
God forbid! Someone who facilitated food and aid blockade to displaced civilians (women and children) and pronounced that all is fair in war. I know who my brother(Heroes) is(are), and its definitely not Ndi Ofe-mmanu

Reference:
so. What is a technocrat. By the definitions I see here once you have a professional degree and were once in practice you are a technocrat, abi. So who is a technocrat. Which means I am a techocrat right now...abi.

Bevista:
My definition of technocrats are those who will be driven completely by professional ethics and not political considerations.

I'm not aware how much political influence the likes of NOI, Barth Nnaji, Olusegun Aganga, Akinwumi Adesina, etc had.