By Abdullahi Alhassan, Kaduna
Coalition of Civil Society Organizations of Nigeria (CCSON) has said that appointing Halimat Tejuosho Adenike as Humanitarian Affairs Minister will reduce agitations from different groups cut across the country.
The group in a press statement jointly signed by the Deputy National Chairman and Spokesperson of the coalition Comrade Auwal Mohammed and Joy Elizabeth was reacting to the seven appointments made by president Bola Ahmed Tinubu under the federal ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, on Tuesday night.
Applauding president Tinubu for the appointments, the group stated that the move is a clear reflection of what Tejuosho has been telling them that the president is committed to take Nigeria to the promise land.
The group however, urged Tinubu to consider Adenike for the position of Humanitarian Affairs Minister because her track record of intervention in the ongoing nationwide protests is outstanding and therefore should be given the full opportunity in the president Tinubu’s led administration to enable her contribute her quota to national development.
CCSON, a Coalition of over 200 Civil Society Groups, that constitutes over 50 million members across the 36 states of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) avered that Tejuosho risked her life from Abuja to Jos in the view to speak with protesters in other for them to end the protest which they obliged, stressing that her intervention in Kogi foiled the protest with no single interest.
Auwal further reiterated that the people living with disabilities, whom Adenike serve as their national patron also shunned the protest because of her interest, adding that there is nowhere in Nigeria that a single PLWDs was seen to have joined the Nationwide protest, courtesy of Adenike’s role.
