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By rolling out the ministers and their portfolios, we can see that the president put imagination to numbers. The ministries are many but so is President Tinubu’s creative juice. He brought creativity to plenty and plenty out of creativity. Some said they want more technocrats. We overplay the virtue of that breed. We forget that technocrats are ministers not to advance their special skills, but to manage humans and society. A technocrat without social or political skill will fail. Hence, we must understand that they must combine cunning, emotional and social intelligence with their technical knowhows.

It is intriguing that Governor Nyesom Wike gets the Federal Capital Territory. That makes him the first governor to get a third term. The law recognise the FCT as a state, and the man who had two terms as governor of Rivers State is getting a new one outside his state, apart from being the pioneer southerner to get it. The law never envisaged such a boon. Hence French philosopher Baron de Montesquieu wrote in his The Spirit of Laws, “Laws are like the statues of certain divinities, which on some occasions, must be veiled.” The law veiled a third-term possibility until Tinubu saw it. He himself probably didn’t know.

NB: Sam Omatseye is a respected columnist with The Nation.

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