Fayose knocks Buhari for abandoning N’digbo

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari’s pattern of appointments since assumption of office saying he has completely sidelined the people from the South-East as if nobody is competent in the zone to hold sensitive political offices.

The outspoken governor also said that President Buhari was running the affairs of the country as if he is a president of the Northern Nigeria only.

He argued that the appointments made so far by the President has revealed that there was an agenda for a deliberate “Nothernisation of Nigeria,”

The governor added that Nigeria can only move forward if there was equity and fairness, stressing that those who made the country’s constitution and enshrined the principle of Federal Character were

mindful of the ethnic diversity of the country.

“They said the President made the appointments on merit and I wish to ask whether there are no competent people in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southern part of Nigeria, especially South-East where no one has been appointed.

“Are they saying Igbo leader like Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, who graduated with a first class honours degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Lagos, is not competent to be appointed as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)?

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“To my mind, these lopsided appointments skewed in favour of the North is a reminder of President Buhari’s tenure as Military Head of State and I hope the President is not seeing Nigeria of today as that of 1984 because doing so will mean that he has turned himself to a northern president, thereby justifying his notion that those who gave him 97 percent votes must get more benefits than those who gave him five percent votes,” the governor said on Monday in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.

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