Adebayo Shittu
By Our Reporter
Former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has said the female ministers in the cabinet of President Bola Tinubu dress like beauty pageant contestants. He urged them to be serious with governance and stop dressing like beauty pageant contestants
Shittu stated during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Wednesday, adding that government functionaries should take public offices with seriousness.
The ex-minister who served under former President Muhammadu Buhari from 2015 to 2019 made the remark in reaction to Tinubu’s address to his ministers at the retreat on Wednesday.
Shittu made the statement while reacting to Tinubu’s warning to ministers at a retreat on Wednesday.
At the opening of a three-day retreat for ministers and presidential aides, Tinubu had warned that ministers who were not ready to work would be fired.
“I’m happy that President Tinubu appointed a number of female ministers but my impression whenever I see them on television is as if they are going to beauty competitions based on the type of dresses they wear,” Shittu said.
“I think there is a need for us (APC) as a government to show more seriousness in the assignments that we have in this government.”
Shittu also spoke about his former principal, ex-President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said, “Buhari did not give anybody any threat. As I said, Buhari is not Tinubu, and Tinubu is not Buhari. What I know of Buhari, with all due respect to him, is that he is a more reserved person. When he gives a job to somebody, he will never ask how they go about it.
“I have to say this for the national interest so that the government who comes after him should do something about it. In the Buhari government, if you don’t go and meet him, probably in the next four years, he will not ask about you.”
