Tinubu’s Ministerial List: ‘He Can’t Reap Where He Didn’t Sow’ – Bayelsa APC Knocks Ex-President, Jonathan

Some chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State have knocked former President, Goodluck Jonathan over an alleged attempt to nominate the state’s ministerial slot in President Bola Tinubu’s incoming cabinet.

The stakeholders under the aegis of the Bayelsa APC Elders Council, on Tuesday in Yenagoa, the state’s capital, said the former Nigerian leader can not reap where he doesn’t sow, Naija News learned.

They noted that Jonathan’s alleged attempt to nominate the state’s ministerial slot for Tinubu’s cabinet was unfair and unjust.

According to them, the former president had supported his party’s candidate, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, so why is he trying “to reap where he did not sow.”

Speaking in Yenagoa, the council’s Chairman, Chief Michael Adomokeme, said he was optimistic that the president, a rewarder of hard work, would not allow a situation of ‘monkey work, baboon chop.’

He submitted that “People shouldn’t try to reap where they have never sowed. Some of us have been here since the early days of this party when it was considered to be a taboo just by being a member.

“You all remember, APC in Bayelsa was called either Islamic party or Hausa party by these same people, I mean, Jonathan and his people. Fast forward to the 2023 elections, President Jonathan did everything to make sure we failed, but we didn’t, as God would have it. What right has he to suddenly want to now nominate the minister from Bayelsa State?

“He was president for six years, he personally nominated dozens of Ministers. Why is he now so interested in just the single we, as a party in Bayelsa, wants to get? Is it to truncate the APC’s visible path to victory come November?

“It is even an aberration and very demeaning for a former President to go cap-in-hand begging for a single ministerial slot. It ridicules and relegates the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“He has been dubbed a statesman and hero of democracy. Fine and good, let him continue being that and not being a statesman by day and a political lobbyist by night.”

Meanwhile, Naija News reports that Jonathan visited the President twice at the Presidential Villa in Abuja since Tinunu’s inauguration in May.