Group urges Tinubu to offload minister over alleged misappropriation, link with bandits

A support group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Tinubu Youth Network (TYN), has called on President Bola Tinubu to seize the opportunity of his planned cabinet reshuffle to offload the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle from his cabinet and order his investigation over alleged misappropriation of public funds and ties with bandits in Zamfara State.

Addressing a press conference on Thursday in Kaduna, the Secretary General of the group, Yusuf Muhammad said there were so many allegations bordering on insecurity against Mr the Matawalle to justify his removal from the president’s ministerial team. Mr Matawalle was governor of Zamfara State from 2019 to 2023. The TYN stated that the welfare and security of the people of Zamfara State should be treated as paramount by the federal government.

The group claimed to have made several unsuccessful attempts to contact the leaders of the ruling APC regarding the allegations made by the current Governor of…

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