What manner of cabinet
Last week, the state governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori constituted the state executive council with the swearing in of commissioners. Despite the three months of waiting marked by high tech political scheming, the cabinet to say the least did not meet the expectations of Deltans. It was simply the affairs of PDP, giving the unfortunate impression that the state was a conquered territory and that the PDP was entitled to the spoils of war. In plain language, no Deltan outside the PDP circle was considered qualified as a commissioner.
Furthermore, the critical Ministries of Information and Justice have no commissioners. If more than ninety days were not enough to scout for capable hands to man the two ministries, then something must be critically wrong with the governance of the state. It is not too late for the governor to correct this grave error.
Another notorious strand of the cabinet is the culture of entitlement and growing of dynastic politics. More than half of the commissioners were in either the Uduaghan or Okowa administrations as commissioners or government appointees. This is a wrongheaded policy. Is the government saying that apart from these people, there are no other members of the party that worked for its victory. This recycling of old government appointees with stale ideas even from the Ibori era is a recipe for disaster. These people are not likely to inject fresh ideas into the Oborevwori administration.
Even more repulsive is the appointment of children of former governor or senator as commissioners. The Pond News believes that family ties should not be criteria for appointment. It is a sad day for the destiny of Delta State.
We are also at a loss at the balkanization of the Ministry of Education into Ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Secondary Education, Ministry of Technical Education and Ministry of Primary Education. Education is too critical a sector to be so fractionalized. If the government is confused on how to tackle educational problems, there are many eminent Deltans in the education forte who can give them the necessary advice. Balkanization of the sector is surely not the path to success.
In the allegory of a carpenter making cabinet, the combination of old and new wood is not smooth chemistry for such cabinet shall collapse in due season. We believe that a wrong step or taking the wrong direction will not lead to the destination of the MORE agenda. This is our submission as we wish the government all best in its journey to better the lives of Deltans.
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