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By TEMITOPE AJAYI



I have joined a lot of conversations ignited by many ethnic champions on social media on the so-called 10 appointments made so far by President Buhari, especially the ones by the Yoruba irredentists, mostly firing from abroad. My take remains these are civil service positions where seniority often takes precedence. I will only complain when political appointments are made and national spread is not taken into consideration. I mean political appointments into the executive leadership of MDAs and Boards. Those listing ADC,CSO, Chief of Protocol to the President, Acting DPR Director, Acting INEC Chairman and Accountant General of the Federation to mean political appointments are nothing but mischief makers and confusionists. These are civil service and public service appointments that are governed by rules, mostly seniority.



Let us face the truth as Southerners, Northerners are more in both public and civil service and funny enough they are more in the leadership cadre of the civil service. Sadly, we may not have Southerner Chief Justice of Nigeria in the next 20 years because the 3 or 4 most senior Supreme Court Justices are Northerners. I am not sure we have even had Southerner Chief Justice of the Federation since 1999. The closest may be Justice Belgore from Ilorin, Kwara State. About 7 years ago, it was discovered that there was nobody that can be Permanent Secretary in the Federal Civil Service from Bayelsa State as the most senior civil servant from Bayelsa was an assistant or a deputy Director. Political consideration had to be used to balance it and I think that was how Ambassador Godsday Igali who was former SSG in Bayelsa was brought in and he is now Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Power. It was only Bayelsa State that had no Permanent Secretary in the Federal Civil Service then.



This problem will continue and we will continue to be ‘Wailing Wailers’ apology to Femi Adesina as long as we Southerners continue to look down on Civil Service and Public Service jobs. Come to think of it, our people ordinarily do not want to go to.....

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