Mahdi Shehu noted that the appearance of a deceased person on an official list reveals deep institutional failures.
By Kehinde Okeowo
Kaduna-based activist and critic, Mahdi Shehu, has frowned at the decision of the President Bola Tinubu-led government to name late Senator Adamu Talba, who died in July 2025, as an ambassadorial nominee.
He criticized the action on Friday in a now-trending post he shared on his official X page, describing the error as a “sad, scandalous and avoidable blunder.”
The public commentator added that the mistake shows that the entire nomination process was rushed and poorly handled.
He also questioned the level of diligence applied by agencies responsible for screening nominees.
Shehu said, “This clearly shows everything is being done in a panicky, haphazard, and fire brigade approach out of FEAR and in a hurry to please local and foreign influencers so that ‘the lion’ can have some sleep.”
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He further noted that the appearance of a deceased person on an official list reveals deep institutional failures.
He argued that agencies tasked with verifying names and backgrounds of nominees did not carry out even the most basic checks.
“It shows how agencies responsible for vetting nominees are clearly not doing their job,” he wrote.
“Regimes that will continue to fail are those that have no blueprint, no action plan, [are] panicky, full of injustice and unfairness, with open bias and hate against those they perceive or are made to perceive as enemies that must be eliminated at all cost.”
Shehu continued, “This is a blunder the Guinness Record Book must register as a unique incidence.”
