Founder of Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Fredrick Fasheun has blamed the ongoing clamour for the disintegration of the country on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.

The OPC founder said the reason might not be unconnected with the way Buhari was showing preference for the northern part of the country over other regions.


Fasheun, who made this claim at a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday, noted that Buhari administration’s bias in favor of the North had further created divisions in Nigeria.

He said if the president did not retrace his steps, his action may lead to the nation’s breakp.

“When he first took power in 2015 and began his initial appointments, President Muhammadu Buhari demonstrated unbelievable insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity, unity and Constitution by unfolding a list of appointees clearly dominated and monopolized by his Northern kinsmen to the alienation and disadvantage of other regions, especially the South-East,” the OPC leader said.

He observed that of the six security service chiefs President Buhari has appointed, the North produced four appointees, while the South produced two. He especially noted that the South-East was jettisoned.


“By July 2016, President Buhari had appointed 47 southerners and 75 northerners into various non-ministerial public offices. Again, the South-East brought up the rear with 12 appointees, where Buhari’s North-West had the largest chunk with 34 of political office holders,” Fasheun observed.

Speaking further, the elder statesman also identified appointments into the nation’s security institutions as examples of President Buhari’s naked bias. In these institutions, Mr. Faseun said, the North holds the leadership positions of the National Security Adviser, Inspector-General of Police, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Air Staff, Chief of Defence Intelligence, Director-General, State Security Services and Comptroller-General, Nigerian Customs Service. Other positions locked down by the North, he pointed out, are the Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service and the Chairmanship of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

“Out of the 15 new directors, 10 (67 percent) come from the mostly Hausa-Fulani North, three are Yoruba, two come from the South-South and none from the South-East. President Buhari must urgently review these appointments to reflect Federal Character, failing which the Senate should bar the appointees from resuming in office,” he said.

“By making these Northern-dominated appointments, President Buhari has contradicted the letter and spirit of the Constitution he swore to uphold, specifically the Federal Character principle in Section 14(3). The President must realize that favoring the North with his lopsided appointments is an act of impunity, and it has sparked the raging agitations for disintegration, ethnic separatism and restructuring.


“Some of his declarations, perhaps made innocently, have inadvertently only succeeded in dividing the nation, paving the way for unbelievers to keep agitating for the irreducible minimums like restructuring, true federalism and devolution of powers,” Fasehun noted.

sarrki:
All online supporters are getting it wrong

Nothing

Not now

Not ever

Igbos will be tamed

rainylad:


Its a welcome developement..i cant wait to be rid of yorubas and hausas as country-men

sarrki:
All online supporters are getting it wrong

Nothing

Not now

Not ever

Igbos will be tamed

rainylad:


Its a welcome developement..i cant wait to be rid of yorubas and hausas as country-men

TheCabal:


[s]Actually, I rather they are cordoned. Let the people in the east accept or reject IPOB.

Till they start reclaiming their Nigerian citizenships after their sons have been decapitated and daughters raped and impregnated by ill seeds like the people in Borno.

Right now, their belle dey sweet. For thier mind "we go show awusa, we pepper yoruba".

Olodo them think sey Chinedu for Sokoto abi Maduka for Lagos go carry IED enter marketplace. If the fire erupts, let it burn in the east for a few days - so it is clear that other regions of the federal republic with not join in this madness.

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tobida:


Right thinking people already knows dat this Buahri road will lead to disintegration and if we must disintegrate it is better we do it in peace.

sarrki:
All online supporters are getting it wrong
Nothing
Not now
Not ever
Igbos will be tamed

dumie:
When he made an infamous and mathematically incorrect 97% and 5% statement, gave birth to this present heated predicament

TheCabal:


Disintegration will start from the east. But, I wonder if much momentum would go past the Niger Bridge.

Can the Ibo man in the north burn down Kano or Kaduna or those in the east obliterate Lagos or Ogun or Perhaps those in Rivers or Calabar.

No my friend. People will watch, the east will burn. On Sunday and Friday we will go to Church and Mosque, in the evening we will be at the beer parlors and clubs and on Monday we will forget.

You know why ...because all other regions will be doing this

tobida:


If one Nigeria, is dis ur type, full of venom, then I will say let them have their Biafra free of venomous animals.

I typically do not support Biafra being a separate country from Nigeria but it is better than toxic living.

TheCabal:


Actually, I rather they are cordoned. Let the people in the east accept or reject IPOB.

Till they start reclaiming their Nigerian citizenships after their sons have been decapitated and daughters raped and impregnated by ill seeds like the people in Borno.

Right now, their belle dey sweet. For thier mind "we go show awusa, we pepper yoruba".

Olodo them think sey Chinedu for Sokoto abi Maduka for Lagos go carry IED enter marketplace. If the fire erupts, let it burn in the east for a few days - so it is clear that other regions of the federal republic with not join in this madness.

Highest we donate relief materials