{"id":240088,"date":"2026-01-23T08:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/former-minister-nwajiuba-accuses-tinubus-government-of-gross-incompetence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:17:52","slug":"former-minister-nwajiuba-accuses-tinubus-government-of-gross-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/former-minister-nwajiuba-accuses-tinubus-government-of-gross-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Minister Nwajiuba Accuses Tinubu\u2019s Government of \u2018Gross Incompetence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"267\">Former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has criticised President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration, comparing its style of governance to \u201ccartel behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"269\" data-end=\"488\">Speaking in an interview on Thursday, Nwajiuba accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of overseeing gross incompetence and consolidating political power to monopolise national resources.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"700\">\u201cWho removes subsidy today and the next morning takes a loan to buy a yacht, renovate a vice-presidential house that is not lived in, travel abroad? This is not government. This is cartel behaviour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"702\" data-end=\"838\">The former minister emphasised that his criticism was not about corruption allegations but rather a fundamental failure of governance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"840\" data-end=\"1008\">\u201cI\u2019m not talking about thievery. I\u2019m talking about gross incompetence,\u201d Nwajiuba said, adding that the country was being poorly managed following major policy shifts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1010\" data-end=\"1149\">Nwajiuba also revealed his intention to contest the 2027 presidential election under the banner of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1151\" data-end=\"1316\">Explaining his decision, he said, \u201cI declared to run because we\u2019ve come into 2026, the ADC is ready, the coalition has come into the ADC and the party is now set.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1318\" data-end=\"1473\">According to Nwajiuba, the ADC\u2019s strategy is to strengthen grassroots structures and draw in Nigerians dissatisfied with the current state of governance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1475\" data-end=\"1631\">\u201cThis is the time to remind all of our supporters and people who want a change in this madness called governance to come with their entire team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has criticised President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration, comparing its style of governance to \u201ccartel behaviour.\u201d Speaking in an interview on Thursday, Nwajiuba accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of overseeing gross incompetence and consolidating political power to monopolise national resources. \u201cWho removes subsidy today and the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":239716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[231,179],"class_list":["post-240088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-adc","tag-tinubu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Chukwuemeka-Nwajiuba.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}