{"id":3056,"date":"2026-10-29T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/alwan-hassans-comment-on-appointment-scandal-not-about-tinubus-ministers-felix-morka\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:17:40","slug":"alwan-hassans-comment-on-appointment-scandal-not-about-tinubus-ministers-felix-morka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/alwan-hassans-comment-on-appointment-scandal-not-about-tinubus-ministers-felix-morka\/","title":{"rendered":"Alwan Hassan\u2019s comment on appointment scandal not about Tinubu\u2019s ministers \u2013 Felix Morka"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Felix Morka, has denied allegations that ministers in President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration paid billions of naira to secure their appointments.<\/p>\n

Morka said the ministers were selected based on competence, insisting that no such payments took place under the current administration.<\/p>\n

He spoke on Arise News on Wednesday while responding to comments by Alwan Hassan, a spokesperson for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, who alleged that some ministers paid billions of naira to secure their positions and later sought to recover the money after assuming office.<\/p>\n

Morka said he had spoken privately with Hassan, who clarified that his comments referred to practices predating the APC-led administration rather than the current government.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince that interview, I have had a moment to speak with Alwan to also just, out of curiosity, understand what he was thinking when he made those comments. He explained that what he was referring to was not really about this administration, but he was speaking in a historical context,\u201d Morka said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he came back and said this thing predated the APC, that suggested to me that his frame of thought was really located not in the present, but really in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

He acknowledged that Hassan\u2019s remarks were open to different interpretations, including the suggestion that officials paid for their appointments.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, what he said left a lot of ambiguity, which some have suggested that he was speaking about appointments,\u201d Morka said.<\/p>\n

The APC spokesman distinguished between lobbying for political appointments and paying money to secure them, describing the latter as unacceptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn all democracies, lobbying for appointments is not something unusual. In the United States, there are firms that contract to lobby for individuals to get appointments to office. Those are usual things that happen in the background prior to appointments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think the concern here is when lobbying becomes monetized, where people pay money to authorities or to individuals to influence, to procure appointments. That I think is what is odious, what is really wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morka categorically rejected the allegation that ministers in Tinubu\u2019s government paid billions of naira to obtain their positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you without equivocation that there\u2019s no such thing. It didn\u2019t happen. Our ministers were selected on the basis of the competence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that Hassan had expressed regret over how his comments were framed and told him that he had intended to discuss the issue in a historical context.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m saying is that the individual who made these comments, as I told you, I\u2019ve had conversations with him, he\u2019s clarified for me to my satisfaction that he was mud-slung in a moment of\u200a\u2014\u200ahe didn\u2019t frame all of that. It sounded unequivocally clear,\u201d Morka said.<\/p>\n

Explaining their conversation, he added: \u201cI had a discussion with him because I was curious to know, \u2018did you really mean to say this?\u2019 He said, \u2018No, no. That\u2019s not what I meant to say. I may have come up wrong. But actually, what I meant to say was to situate this problem, this thematic, in historical context.\u2019 He said that to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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