Alwan Hassan, a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, says many ministers in President Bola Tinubu’s government bought their appointments with billions of naira and are out to loot to recoup their money.

Mr Hassan, who described ministers as the “most criminal elements in government,” made this remark in an interview with ARISE TV on Thursday, while defending Mr Tinubu’s decision to control government expenditure by not giving his ministers the budget to implement.

“Whatever it is that a budget should do in this country in the last three years, Asiwaju has done it by himself. Why do we need ministers? Why do we need budget given to ministers? A lot of ministers…,” Mr Hassan said as he was interrupted by the interview anchor

But Mr Hassan returned to the point he was making before the interview anchor interrupted him, saying, “The way Asiwaju is hands-on on the expenditures of our revenue is fantastic, and I love it. A lot of ministers pay billions and billions, and you know, to get themselves appointed, the first thing they think of is how to recoup that money.”