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APC Leaders Angry As Buhari Appoints More Northerners by spafu(m): 1:55am On Aug 28, 2015 |
THERE was an outrage in the ruling All Progressives
Congress on Thursday over the announcement of
new appointments by President Muhammadu
Buhari.
Leaders of the APC, who spoke to The PUNCH ,
complained that the appointments tilted in favour of
the North and said the party must move fast to
cope with the backlash of expected rumblings in the
polity.
“The President does not consult before making
most of these appointments and I can tell you that
Nigerians are going to term the party and the
President as a northern party and the President of
Northern Nigeria,” a leader of the party said to one
of our correspondents late on Tuesday.
Buhari, according to a statement by his Special
Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr.
Femi Adesina, on Thursday approved the
appointment of Babachir David Lawal from
Adamawa State as the Secretary to the Government
of the Federation.
He also named Mr. Abba Kyari from Borno state as
his Chief of Staff.
Other appointments approved by the President,
according to the statement, are those of Col.
Hameed Ibrahim Ali (retd.) as the new Comptroller-
General, Nigerian Customs Service; Mr. Kure Martin
Abeshi, Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration
Service; Senator Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant
on National Assembly Matters (Senate); and
Suleiman Kawu as SSA on National Assembly
Matters (House of Representatives).
Both Ali and Kawu are from Kano State and Abeshi
is from Nasarawa. Enang from Akwa Ibom State is
the only one from the south geo-political zone.
Adesina said all the appointments would take
immediate effect.
Three top national officers of the APC, who spoke
with one of our correspondents on condition of
anonymity shortly after the announcements were
made, wondered why the President was appointing
only northerners to positions to the detriment of the
southerners.
They said that the President was already giving the
party a bad name among Nigerians. They said they
had hoped that he would learn from the criticisms
that trailed his first appointments where more
northerners were appointed into sensitive positions
than southerners.
Before the latest appointments, the President had
also named only one southerner among the initial
nine appointments he made.
The northerners in the first appointments are the
Director-General of the State Services, Lawal
Daura; Acting Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission, Mrs. Amina Zakari; the
Director, Department of Petroleum Resources, Mr.
Mordecai Danteni Baba Ladan; and the Accountant-
General of the Federation, Alhaji Ahmed Idris.
Also in the first appointments are the President’s
Chief Security Officer, Abdulrahman Mani; State
Chief of Protocol, Mallam Abdullahi Kazaure; Aide-
De-Camp, Lt. Col. Muhammed Abubakar; and the
Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity,
Mallam Garba Shehu.
Only the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr.
Femi Adesina, hailed from Osun Staten in the South-
West.
Another APC leader said the party must devise a
way of managing the backlash that would follow the
appointments.
He said, “Though the President did not get much
votes from the South-East but we must not neglect
the zone in key appointments.
“Even the South-West that supported and was the
backbone of the party, what are we giving the zone
in appreciation? We need to be careful before the
party is destroyed.”
It was gathered that some leaders of the party were
already thinking of having an enlarged meeting
where the appointments would be reviewed.
But another senior member of the APC said such a
meeting, if it would hold at all, would have to wait
until the party holds its Kogi State governorship
primary on Saturday.
A member of the state executive of APC in a South-
West state, said the appointments were lopsided
against the South.
He said, “When President Olusegun Obasanjo took
over, you saw balance in appointments as he
reflected federal character. President Goodluck
Jonathan too reflected a semblance of balance.
Buhari is pursuing a northern agenda. This is the
same agenda pursued by the late Sir Ahmadu Bello,
when everything was pro-North. Buhari made six
appointments at a go and five of them are
northerners.”
The Speaker of one of the Houses of Assembly in
the South-West, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, also described the new appointments as
shocking.
The Speaker, who is a member of the APC, said,
“This is shocking. It doesn’t speak well at all. The
South-West has been completely neglected and the
South-East too. The South-West was neglected
during the President Goodluck Jonathan years. The
South-West must rise up against this.”
Similarly, an APC chairman in another South-West
state, who also spoke on condition of anonymity,
said the list of the new appointees had left him
perplexed.
The chairman said, “This is not good at all. Why
should he choose everybody from the North? I am
sure he did not confide in anybody before drawing
up the list and making the announcement. We will
continue to watch. It is condemnable.”
In the same vein, an APC member of the House of
Representatives, said the leaders of the party in the
South-West were shocked by Buhari’s latest
appointments.
“He didn’t tell anybody. We are all shocked. The real
shocker would be when he is going to appoint
ministers. The only thing that would save us is that
he is mandated constitutionally to choose from all
states, otherwise, he would have chosen all the
ministers too from the North,” the female member
of parliament said.
The new SGF graduated from the Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria, in 1979 with a Bachelor of
Engineering degree and worked with the Delta Steel
Company, Aladja, Nigerian External
Telecommunications Limited and Data Sciences
Limited before establishing his own ICT and
Telecommunications consulting firm in 1990.
Kyari, the new Chief of Staff to the President, holds
Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the University
of Cambridge and the University of Warwick in Law
and Sociology.
The new Comptroller-General of Customs, holds
Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Criminology. He
was military administrator of Kaduna State from
1996 to 1998. |
Re: APC Leaders Angry As Buhari Appoints More Northerners by judiciarypalava: 2:26am On Aug 28, 2015 |
Una never chee chontin. One Nigeria indeed! |
Re: APC Leaders Angry As Buhari Appoints More Northerners by Nobody: 2:33am On Aug 28, 2015 |
It's well with Nigeria. A proud 5% faithful. God bless GEJ 1 Like |
Re: APC Leaders Angry As Buhari Appoints More Northerners by kurupt1: 2:33am On Aug 28, 2015 |
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Re: APC Leaders Angry As Buhari Appoints More Northerners by igbinigiejeff(m): 4:32am On Aug 28, 2015 |
For once, we have a leader who understands what it means to be President. A man who survived a coup and lost 3 elections really has it all to prove. And he will only appoint those whom he trusts. I only hope he applies a little wisdom in his next appointments to douse the tension of ethnic sentiments that's beginning to fester. |
Re: APC Leaders Angry As Buhari Appoints More Northerners by Smooyis(m): 8:27am On Aug 28, 2015 |
Winner takes ALL |
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