A political pressure group, Tinubu Support Team (TST), has lauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for appointing Honourable Zaphaniah Bitrus Jisalo as Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs minister, saying it was a proactive appointment.
Addressing newsmen Tuesday in Abuja, the national coordinator of Tinubu Support Team, Mr John Lawal, said though many Nigerians expected Jisalo, a native of FCT, to be appointed FCT minister, Tinubu showed he was not an ethnic bigot by not meeting that expectation.
He said Jisalo’s curriculum vitae had encouraged the portfolio assigned to him by President Tinubu.
According to Lawal, Jisalo has proven himself as a unifier even as two-term Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) Chairman and two term member representing AMAC/Bwari in the House of Representatives.
He said: “It has become imperative for the leadership of the above stated coalition to commend the swift response of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in tackling our numerous national challenges headlong with prompt policies and pragmatically inclined appointments in the first 100 days of the Renewed Hope administration.
“Judging by Mr President’s bold steps and policies within a short period, despite the current national hardship required to adjust and balance, we cannot but applaud his temerity, which is a departure from past administrations.
“Hon Jisalo as the Minister of Special Duties and Inter Governmental Affairs will use his expertise in Applied Psychology and Administration to conduct, coordinate and promote harmonious relationship among the three tiers of government nationwide and the international bodies.
“We urge Hon Zephaniah Jisalo to not only live up to expectations, but surpass it as the first indigenous and detribalized Gbagyi man to ascend the office of a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria substantively due to his astute cosmopolitanism.
“The ascension of an indigenous minister representing not only the natives, but with a charisma of accommodating non-indigenes as a minister at the center is a testimony of the President’s nationalistic embodiment concept.”
