With the recent appointments made by President Buhari which again is lopsided in favour of the North against the South, we were once more reminded that
1. The appointments are purely based on merit
2. The persons appointed are not corrupt
3. The appointees are those the president can work with

To me, the president in a better position to decide who has the above characteristics. It also means that in his judgment, nobody from the entire South-East is qualified according to those criteria.

Please don't give me the crap about Ministers, ambassadors, board chairmen bla bla bla. ) Every government has the people that drive it, and unless we want to live a lie, Buhari has made it clear who he wants.

Now having decided to work with Merit and discard people with corrupt tendencies, can the President give the emerging state of affairs a stamp of permanence by doing away completely with the Federal Character provisions in our laws.

Eliminate all forms of quota system and federal character in the admission process into unity schools, Federal universities and recruitment/employment into all federal civil service, agencies, parastatals

I believe that once merits is given its rightful place, most Southerners may not really bother with who holds what position in government as far one is assured of getting what he is entitled to in whatever government office by merit.

A situation where we have the cut-off points below from the same Government which proclaims merit is bothersome.

CUT-OFF MARKS FOR ENTRANCE TO FEDERAL UNITY SCHOOLS FOR ALL 36 STATES AND THE FCT
Abia – Male (130) Female (130)
Adamawa – Male (62) Female (62)
Akwa-Ibom – Male (123) Female (123)
Anambra – Male (139) Female (139)
Bauchi – Male (35) Female (35)
Bayelsa – Male (72) Female (72)
Benue – Male (111) Female (111)
Borno – Male (45) Female (45)
Cross-Rivers – Male (97) Female (97)
Delta – Male (131) Female (131)
Ebonyi – Male (112) Female (112)
Edo – Male (127) Female (127)
Ekiti – Male (119) Female (119)
Enugu – Male (134) Female (134)
Gombe – Male (58) Female (58)
Imo – Male (138) Female (138)
Jigawa – Male (44) Female (44)
Kaduna – Male (91) Female (91)
Kano – Male (67) Female (67)
Kastina – Male (60) Female (60)
Kebbi – Male (9) Female (20)
Kogi – Male (119) Female (119)
Kwara – Male (123) Female (123)
Lagos – Male (133) Female(133)
Nassarawa – Male (58) Female (58)
Niger – Male (93) Female (93)
Ogun – Male (131) Female (131)
Ondo – Male (126) Female (126)
Osun – Male (127) Female (127)
Oyo – Male (127) Female (127)
Plateau – Male (97) Female (97)
Rivers – Male (118) Female (118)
Sokoto – Male (9) Female (13)
Taraba – Male (3) Female (11)
Yobe – Male (2) Female (27)
Zamfara – Male (4) Female (2)
FCT Abuja – Male (90) Female (90)

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