The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain Aliyu Audu says the number is not enough despite criticisms over President Bola Tinubu’s appointment of as many as 45 ministers.
Audu, a member of the Media Strategy Subcommittee, APC Presidential Transition Council, said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily today that not even 48 ministers are enough as Nigeria has a population of over 200 million and is in a crisis.
Buttressing his point, the APC member argued that Tinubu, as Lagos State governor between 1999 and 2007, the President felt that the need to take governance closer to the people and demanded the creation of more local governments.
Quizzed further, Audu noted that he was not speaking only in terms of revenue but “every standard”.
The transition council member noted that the migration of people from other states into Lagos alone put enormous pressure on everything that the state had built in the last 24 years, though in his view, the state is still building and growing.
