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FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by ogododo: 7:56am On Sep 17, 2021
Reps kick against Buhari’s appointment of two Northerners as Chairman, Secretary of Federal Character Commission

The House of Representatives on Thursday frowned at President Muhammadu Buhari’s flagrant disregard to the provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) on the appointment of two Northerners as Chairman and Secretary of Federal Character Commission (FCC).

Worried by the development, the House after the adoption of a motion on the ‘Urgent need to address the Constitutional infraction in the Federal Character Commission in the appointment of the Chairman and secretary of the Commission’, sponsored by Hon. Unyime Idem, underscored the need for the Presidency to comply with the provisions of Section 14(3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

“The House is aware that in compliance with the resolution of this honourable House reached on February 25, 2020, the President of Nigeria appointed the Chairman and Commissioners of the Federal Character Commission on April 28, 2020.

“The House is further aware that the current Secretary of the Federal Character Commission was appointed as a substantive Secretary to the Commission in March, 2017.

“Although his tenure was expected to end on April 7, 2021, he was re-appointed by the President on April 7, 2021, for his second term in office as the secretary of the Commission.

“The House is cognizant that the current Chairman of the Commission, is from the Northern part of the country and the re-appointed Secretary is also from the Northern part of the country, which is in flagrant violation of Section 14(3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended.

“The House notes that Section 14(3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria stipulates that the composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few States or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or in any of its agencies.

“The House notes further that the Federal Character Commission is one of the MDAs of the Federal government with the responsibility to promote, monitor and enforce compliance with the principles of the proportional sharing of all bureaucratic, economic, media and political posts at all levels of government.

“More compellingly is the provision of section 4 of the subsidiary legislation which provides inter Alia, “where the number of positions available cannot go round the states of the Federation or the Federal Capital, the distribution shall be on Zonal basis. But in the case of where two positions are available, the positions shall be shared between the northern and southern zones.”

“Unfortunately, these unambiguous provisions of our Laws were disregarded despite the complaints of Nigerians, thus, threatening the continued existence of Nigeria as a united nation; our unity as a nation should be exercised with respect to fairness, equity and justice.

“The House is concerned that pursuant to the Principle of Federal Character, as contained in the Act governing the Commission, leadership positions must be equally distributed between zones. This simply means that the position of Secretary of the Commission should, going by the Principle of Federal Character and as stated in the Constitution of Nigeria, automatically, go to the Southern part of Nigeria.

“The House is worried that the provisions of the enabling laws have been violated as one of the most ingenious and ambitious affirmative actions entrenched in our constitution to promote national unity uniquely named Federal Character.

“This consistent negation of a critical national consensus should be resisted and rejected by all well-meaning Nigerians,” Hon Udem urged.

He also underscored the need for the House to draw the attention of Federal Government to the unfair, unjust and inequitable contravention of the provisions of the Constitution in the appointment of both the Chairperson and Secretary of the Federal Character Commission from a particular zone of the country (North).

On his part, the Minority Leader, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu stressed the need to ensure that all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies comply with the federal character policy in the appointment of civil servants.

In his intervention, Hon. Uzoma Abonta underscored the need for the House and indeed National Assembly to protect the Constitution.

To this end, the House mandated its Committee on Federal Character to ensure compliance within four weeks.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by Baawaa(m): 8:00am On Sep 17, 2021
Audio kick against, nothing will happen

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by ogododo: 8:07am On Sep 17, 2021
Bubu fit appoint North Vice President self de way he de go. All service chief, army, police, immigration, Conservative general, prison na arewa dem be.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by fergie001: 8:10am On Sep 17, 2021
ogododo:
Bubu fit appoint North Vice President self de way he de go. All service chief, army, police, immigration, Conservative general, prison na arewa dem be.
As many of my friends here will say: Merit over Zoning...

If the HoR is not comfortable, they should go to Court please cool

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by ItsGoodToBeGood: 8:10am On Sep 17, 2021
Hope they are not one of the repentant militants to avoid kicking the bucket while kicking

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by Teadavid23(m): 8:29am On Sep 17, 2021
Again and again I decree, all our politicians are mad.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by kilisi(m): 8:32am On Sep 17, 2021
Are they just waking up?


Buhari doesn't even know he's polarising the country along ethnic lines with his appointments.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by ogododo: 8:33am On Sep 17, 2021
fergie001:

As many of my friends here will say: Merit over Zoning...

If the HoR is not comfortable, they should go to Court please cool

Na why we dey like dis, we go dey ok one day. From Unity schools to universities, to employment, North dey pampered.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by velocity25(m): 8:51am On Sep 17, 2021
Buhari is definition of nepotism and tribalism.
Let me dey go...

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by fergie001: 8:58am On Sep 17, 2021
ogododo:
Na why we dey like dis, we go dey ok one day. From Unity schools to universities, to employment, North dey pampered.
Na soooo...we go dey OK.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by ogododo: 9:10am On Sep 17, 2021
fergie001:

Na soooo...we go dey OK.

Equity, justice bring peace. May Oghene help us.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by poiZon: 9:12am On Sep 17, 2021
I don't know between gbajabiamila and lawan who is more useless...
Chai..
To be a Nigerian is serious task.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by fergie001: 9:16am On Sep 17, 2021
ogododo:


Equity, justice bring peace. May Oghene help us.
When you mentioned Oghene I remembered something. Oghene is known as the Supreme Being amongst Urhobo/Isoko people I guess.

When this matter was brought forth to the Senate, Abaribe raised this issue of a Northerner occupying both positions. Guess what, he was shut down by whom?

Ovie Omo-Agege.....So why blame the Northerners or Buhari? Leave them alone.

poiZon:
I don't know between gbajabiamila and lawan who is more useless...
Chai..
To be a Nigerian is serious task.
The Constitution says the Senate will confirm.....Gbaja & the HoR had nothing to do with it.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by Maxymilliano(m): 9:16am On Sep 17, 2021
We all know the Principle of Federal Character is long dead and buried under the current dispensation.

The tragedy is that we have docile legislatures

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by ogododo: 9:30am On Sep 17, 2021
fergie001:

When you mentioned Oghene I remembered something. Oghene is known as the Supreme Being amongst Urhobo/Isoko people I guess.

When this matter was brought forth to the Senate, Abaribe raised this issue of a Northerner occupying both positions. Guess what, he was shut down by whom?

Ovie Omo-Agege.....So why blame the Northerners or Buhari? Leave them alone.


The Constitution says the Senate will confirm.....Gbaja & the HoR had nothing to do with it.


Ovie go sabi very soon. He dey chop for Abuja, forget sey na area de control.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by poiZon: 9:47am On Sep 17, 2021
fergie001:

When you mentioned Oghene I remembered something. Oghene is known as the Supreme Being amongst Urhobo/Isoko people I guess.

When this matter was brought forth to the Senate, Abaribe raised this issue of a Northerner occupying both positions. Guess what, he was shut down by whom?

Ovie Omo-Agege.....So why blame the Northerners or Buhari? Leave them alone.


The Constitution says the Senate will confirm.....Gbaja & the HoR had nothing to do with it.

The senate deliberates before confirming..
Why do they screen, why not just read their names then confirm them, why screen?
The same way they screen candidates and make recommendations should also be applicable to other nominations sent to them. They r the custodians of our constitution, if the executive err in its application, the national assembly should be the one to correct them. How can federal character commission be flouting federal character rules and the national assembly is sitting and watching..

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by fergie001: 10:06am On Sep 17, 2021
poiZon:

The senate deliberates before confirming..
Why do they screen, why not just read their names then confirm them, why screen?
The same way they screen candidates and make recommendations should also be applicable to other nominations sent to them. They r the custodians of our constitution, if the executive err in its application, the national assembly should be the one to correct them. How can federal character commission be flouting federal character rules and the national assembly is sitting and watching..
Is it that you still don't know how this National Assembly, and especially Senate work? Even a Sitting Senator in the ruling Party is complaining. We are used to them already nah.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by poiZon: 10:12am On Sep 17, 2021
fergie001:

Is it that you still don't know how this National Assembly, and especially Senate work? Even a Sitting Senator in the ruling Party is complaining. We are used to them already nah.

I know sis, am just venting my anger. Its saddening..
Tomorrow they will be shouting one Nigeria.. And southerners who r employed will also shout one Nigeria forgetting they r people this Nigeria is illtreating.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by AntiBMC(m): 10:13am On Sep 17, 2021
Which one is northerners? They should say it as it is... it's two Fulani men. They kept quiet for 6 years whilst this particular tribe that's not even indigenous to Nigeria, took over the country. So they should remain silent.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by ogododo: 10:33am On Sep 17, 2021
How FCC Chairman and Secretary come for North. The matter tire mata oo. Bubu no send any bagger.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by Idiko1: 10:40am On Sep 17, 2021
Maxymilliano:
We all know the Principle of Federal Character is long dead and buried under the current dispensation.

The tragedy is that we have docile legislatures

I shall be twisted out of human form if any goon tries to exhume dead and buried federal Character. In addition, I want the unconditional abolition of quota system.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by DuduParaPara: 11:22am On Sep 17, 2021
Good morning HoR
Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by LaSenior: 1:57pm On Sep 17, 2021
grin
Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by Lexusgs430: 1:58pm On Sep 17, 2021
buhari is so dumb & sensible............ He simply does not give a damn......

Nepotism, runs through his dead veins..... He is not sensitive to anything or anyone.........

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by Blackfire(m): 1:59pm On Sep 17, 2021
All this southern noise makers



We are talking of competence they are shouting tribalism



North2023
No vacancy

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by Ibkhaleel001: 1:59pm On Sep 17, 2021
PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO (OBJ) TREATMENT & COMING 2023

In the whole 8years of OBJ's administration he did not see a single Hausa/Fulani northerner worthy of appointment as Service Chief, IGP or DG (DSS). Victor Malu, Martin Luther Agwai, Jonah Wuyep, Luka Yusuf, Ibrahim Ogehi, then IGP Tafa Balogun, Musliu Smith, Sunday Ehindero, Mike Okiro up to the DG (DSS) Col. Aare (rtd), were his selected appointees to oversee our security architecture.

Where appointments were to be made from Kano or Sokoto (whole seat of Chaliphate) he would look for the Adamu Baikis, the Solomon Matankaris who are indegenous Christians of the area. If Hausas/Fulanis complained, Obj’s response was, “all the appointees were your people, brothers from the North”. Of course they were; he even used sme tactics to play a very dangerous divide and rule politics with northerners; his arrow - headmen, Jerry Gana & Solomon Lar were part and parcel of the Villa cabals, members of his kitchen cabinet who determined most appointment made by the government Agencies. Google all the very sensitive position then, there was no single Hausa or Fulani there. CBN, Joseph Sanusi later Soludo. Custom Buba Gyan, NNPC Edmund Dakoru, to mention just a few.

Never forget that OBJ flushed out more than 500 soldiers of Northern extraction, from the ranks of Major and above, who held political appointments during the past military administrations, including orderlies and ADCs. Those who survived his hammer, like Bamalli Nuhu were assembled and bombed in the mountainous region; between Benue and Cross River States.

Obasanjo’s civil service reform were mainly targeted at northerners who mostly, (80%) became victims; from NEPA,Maritime, NPA and Aviation etc. Northerners were major casualties. Similarly all the replacements that followed were from his kiths and kins, and his god sons.

Prior to 1999, more than 15 international airlines operate or had their routes to Kano, but Obasanjo made sure he decimated that to only 3 before he left. Very very fresh in our memories is how he stylishly killed all the Northern textiles, groundnuts and cotton pyramids as well as many other agronomic economies; particularly the poultry using the hoax claim of “birds flu” conspiracy that obliterated all major players in the sector, from northern region. He also deliberately opened our boarders for the importation of all kinds of agricultural goods, which tactically killed virtually all local industries in Kano, Kaduna, Gusau to mention just a few. He stated and ensured DIC and Peugeot and Steyr plants became comatose.virtually all critical northern enterprises were put out of business with deadly attendant consequences.

For example, in Kano alone there were more than 5000 factories / industries located in Challawa, Bompai and Sharada industrial estates. Before Obj’s tenure ended he made sure 80% of those factories folded up, and the remaining 20% were operating at half level, below minimal capacities due to his well designed, well executed, skewed economic policies.

Remember the housing, monetization and privatisation policies he used our people to execute? This program was conceptualised and well executed to basically empower his kiths and Kins to owned choice properties in Abuja and Lagos. The privatisation was used to catapult cronies and surrogates, as well as God sons, into multi-billionaires. People like Mike Adenuga, Fola Adeola, Jimoh Ibrahim, Jim Ovia, Chris and the Andy Ubahs, to mention just a few.

Most of these people were, prior to 1999, using night buses to & fro Lagos/Abuja. Incidentally within a span of short period, all were flying private jets,while the country, North in particular was rapidly sliding backwards. One can continue on and on; why the north and northerners tolerated all that, only God knows.

The current clamor for self determination by some states from previous regions are nothing but blackmails that, to me, are dead on arrival. Rather than experiencing the Obj treatment again, it suffices if every single region go its separate way. The north can not afford to make the 1999 blunder again. Democracy is a game of numbers; anybody who thinks he/she is competent to lead us should come out and contest. The north is not ready to concede to any blackmail.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by kennyade3h: 1:59pm On Sep 17, 2021
All their kicks won't kick the appointed northerners out of their officez
Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by Ibkhaleel001: 1:59pm On Sep 17, 2021
LET US VOMIT OUT THE SOUTHERN HOOK, LINE AND SINKER


Northern Nigeria has more graduates and Professors than South Africa. The real problem is not as Southerners paint it and you echo it like empty halls. 


Practically, millions of Northerners are either unemployed, misemployed, or underemployed. Our problem is our chances are blocked and our resources dominated by Southerners who paint the wrong picture for fools to believe them.


75% of  government spending is connered by Southerners via the domination of salary earning, contracts, projects, bail outs and other interventions. Trade and industries are dominated by Southerners who have easy access to multi billion credit facilities courtesy their domination of state financial structure and instruments and institutions. 


Every ministry is dominated by them. All our markets are monopolized by them due to their control of capital that enable them to finance business and take more risk due to ease of acces to money. They conrol their markets by regular disruptuons of our businesses officially and by direct frequent violence unofficially. Their control of and easy access to liquidity enable them to be more enerprising business wise. They buy our goods cheap and sell theirs exorbitantly.


To preserve the exploitative status quo they spread false verson of the reality. They centralize oil as the main source of wealth so that our attention will be far away from other sources of wealth they dominate.

Oil is less than 10% of  Nigeria's GDP. They tell us we are the parasite and we are lazy and we are uneducated to instil a sense of guilt, self hate and inadequacy in us. We swallow all these falsehood uncritcally because we made our source of daily information their media and books. They over concentrate on our weaknesses and ignore almost completely their own weaknesses. An average Southerner having mild cold will almost by default blame it on Northerners and will not lack northerners who "speak the truth" to agree with him.


How can uneducated people have multitude of unemployed graduates? How can lazy people be producig the food of the nation? Why do millions of Southerners troop to the poor parasitic North and refuse leave? The south said so and it is?


What we need is a  political economic solution. We must take control of our local markets, our institutions and our businesses in their land must be given due attention and protection and any act of disruption by way of constant destruction must be paid back in due measure without listening to their victimship outcries. They fear separation more than us because their weak economic foundation, especially the west entirely dependent on controlling  government resources.


We must ask and take our fair share of every government employment at whatever cost. No people has ever prospered when their resources, oppurtunities and chances are blocked and dominated by others.  Our constant preachment of peace must stop: justice and and equity must be our new slagon. 


The real problem is believing in the propaganda of the enemies which saps our resourcefulness and infuse our senses with feelings of backwardness that really do not exist, or are caused by false perception. The greatest defeat one can suffer is to see oneself as projected by one's enemies. 


Almajiri is system suffocated by lack of finance. Poverty is a direct result of economic domination and exclusion. Degrees are not unavailable. Marrying four wives will not stop as it is never a problem but a great social system. Once we assert control on what is rightly ours, that self concious timidity will evaporate and be replaced by confidence and bold enterprise. Up to the Seventies we were the richest people in Africa. As the central government grows and  takes control of resources our wealth progressively dwindles. As the southerners intensify drums of hate and aggression we draw back to give peace, that is never forthcoming, a chance.


Try asking for propotionate representation in all government employment in all institutions and at all levels, they will cry out about mediocrity supplanting merit as if those half literates southerners dominating the place are Einstein incanates. Or they will blackmail you with Islamization.


Try treating their traders in our markets as they treat ours and they will cry xenophobia as if the regular denial of market space, heavy taxation, constant disruption of business and officially sanctioned harrassment of our traders in their land does not exist.


Try replacing Southern union leaders and foreign sponsored NGOs operating in the North with our own people and they will start wailing about marginalization.


Well, their era of dominance and false propaganda is coming to an end with the coming of age of young northerners who could no longer accept marginalization because of blackmail or threat. These new bold Northern youth have seen how southerners cowered when asked to leave the North two years ago. Their cries for secession are empty ruse. 


We will be better off without them and they will definitely be worse off without us. They know we lack nothing, while their millions selling substandard, fake good, drugs and inrdinately high interest bank loans fleecing the north and feeding on cheap food and services will have nothing on returning back home. Their franchise firms and industries will lose over 100 million costumers overnight which is more than their home market demand. 


Soon we will ask for equity or call it quit. We know who we are and we know our strength.

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Re: FCC: Reps Kick Against Buhari’s Appointment Of 2 Northerners As Chairman, Secret by nairaman66(m): 2:00pm On Sep 17, 2021
Baawaa:
Audio kick against, nothing will happened

You can’t even put sentences together! You guys are a joke!

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