Tinubu’s Government Will Suffer Because He’s Surrounded By Sophisticated Cabals – Ex-Minister Dalung

A former Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has stated that while cabals around former President Muhammadu Buhari were less educated, those around President Bola Tinubu are “sophisticated and ambitious.”

The former minister said this on Channels TV’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday, adding that this was the reason why Tinubu’s presidency would suffer.

Dalung, who was a minister during Buhari’s administration, confirmed that cabals took over Buhari administration, leaving the former president as a “stranger” in his government.

Dalung said, “Of course, President Muhammadu Buhari’s government had cabals. That is known and that I have attested to it. 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 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.”

He noted that the presidency would suffer more than that of Buhari because the cabals know how to manipulate power.

“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 wanted, 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,” he noted.

It would be recalled that in the early days of his administration, Tinubu vowed not to allow cabals control his government.