WORKING as a political appointee in Nigeria is merely an exercise in extreme perfunctoriness. I doubt if those who accept these offices, those who offer them and those who “screen” and confirm the appointees, are driven by any vision at all, any objective to achieve in the progress of the country.
In countries managed by serious-minded people, names of political appointees are forwarded to the National Assembly with the offices they are nominated for clearly specified.
The president would then have to nominate another person, because the lawmakers would consider it unpatriotic to allow an incompetent person to occupy an office where he would only slow down the country’s progress and development. Concern for the health and progress of their country is uppermost in their hearts. Only the best available brain is good enough for every office in their country’s public service.
The worst aspect of this is when nominated former National Assembly members appear for screening, as occurred in the case of Godwin Akpabio. The lawmakers would just ask them to “take a bow” and go! And the “screening” is over! They were once asked why they did this, and their answer was that anybody who had served as a federal lawmaker was qualified to be a minister!