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A founding member of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Tanko Yakasai has claimed there are some individuals who are fantastically corrupt and yet made President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list.

The ACF elder, In his reaction to the names of nominees announced, pointed out that the list makes a mockery of the President’s anti-graft war.

President Buhari on Tuesday sent a list of 43 ministerial nominees with the inclusion of seven ex-senators and seven former governors to the senate.

But Yakasai in a statement issued in Kano on Tuesday, Yakasai said the majority of the nominees are already known to the president hence, his delay in submitting his nominees is unjustifiable.

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“The new ministerial list submitted by the president to the senate is representative enough, but the nomination of certain people perceived to be fantastically corrupt made a mockery of the president’s war against corruption,” he said.

“The fact remains that the returnees are many means that the policy of the new government will not be much different from that of the outgoing.

“My only observation is that since the majority of the nominees are already known to the president his delay in submitting ministerial nomination is unjustifiable,” Yakasai stated.

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