President Bola Tinubu acted quickly in response to accusations of fraud against Betta Edu, the suspended minister of humanitarian affairs, as the ruling All Progressives Congress, or APC, has explained.
The party claimed that before information reaches the President, it must go through certain procedures.
This was said by Felix Morka, the All Progressives Congress’s national publicity secretary, in a Tuesday interview with Arise Television.
Morka said, “We are talking about the president of the federal republic of Nigeria, you don’t expect that every act that happens in a ministry is something that is mirrored in the presidency or that there is a board where the president is seeing everything happening in every ministry.
“When there is a problem, that problem works its way up through the channels of information of vetting and filtering to present information to the president for his assessment and decision.
“I don’t think the timeline that you are talking about is less swift because people discussed it first. My point is that the president responded as swiftly as can be and appropriately on this matter.”
Morka argued that no one can regulate human actions and that a party cannot modulate the conducts of its members. He suggested that the only way to set standards and consequences for those who take actions is to set parameters for imposing consequences.
Morka argued that superhumans are not expected to be members of the APC, as people populate the parties. He also stated that the question is not whether people do wrong, but whether they choose to do so. Morka praised the president’s swift response to the appearance of something wrong, stating that he has responded as expected in a democracy.