Nigerians React To First-Class Graduate's Claim Buhari Rejected List Of Scholarship Beneficiaries Because There Was No Northerner

Nigerians on social media have continued to react to claims by a first-class graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and current doctoral student of the University of Toronto, Chidozie Ojobor, that President Muhammadu Buhari sacrificed merit for federal character upon his election.

Ojobor had revealed how he and several other first-class graduates of institutions across Nigeria were shortlisted to take the Presidential Special Scholarship (PRESSID) designed by former President Goodluck Jonathan, exclusively for first-class Nigerian graduates who wanted to further their studies in any university across the world.

According to him, he had taken the examination with 16 of his colleagues who were also Graduate-Assistants at the UNN and being a computer-based test, each of them got to know their scores immediately.

He said in February 2015, the list of 101 successful candidates shortlisted for the scholarship programme was published in the national dailies.

Ojobor said he had already applied to Princeton University, Imperial College London and University of Toronto and had high hopes of clinching the $250, 000 (about N50,000,000 at the time at the rate of $1/N200) worth of scholarship.

He said there was, however, a twist in fate when Jonathan lost the presidential election to Buhari. Ojobor said shortly after Buhari was sworn in, he complained that there was no single northerner on it.

He alleged that Buhari kicked against the list because he considered it as an agenda of the South, which made him and others to lose such a huge opportunity.


How Buhari Rejected List Of Beneficiaries Of Scholarship Initiated By Jonathan Because There Was No Northern Beneficiary — First-Class Graduate
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The scholarship was worth about $250,000 per person (tuition and living expenses inclusive across 5 years).

His revelation has continued to generate backlash as many Nigerians said such further demonstrates the president's penchant for nepotism and ethnocentrism in his appointments.

Social media user, Adeyeye Olabode, claimed he knows about the scholarship scheme and the role President Buhari played. He stated further that nepotism will stunt the growth of the country.
 
He wrote, “The truth is that the North is still backward with education, and they must not drag the south backwards too. I know about the scholarship, and I knew so many beneficiaries of it until Buhari came and stopped everything.

“Things like this will not make Nigeria develop because we are talking about academic excellence, and they are still thinking about the quota system. In foreign countries, we have seen how so many Nigerians are excelling academically. How many are from the North? Anything that requires merit, let's forget about dominance again.”

For Kelvin Igwe, merit has always been sacrificed not only in the academic world but even in other aspects of the economy.

He wrote: “Any nation that short-changes merit for quota system will fail. For instance, the federal high court judge nominated for ICC that doesn't have basic knowledge of court proceedings, in the midst of eminently qualified judges.”

Adegbola Oluwatoyin said, “How can a people who have no regard for excellence and education produce first-class? It's obvious in the way Nigeria is being governed. Can't you see mediocrity everywhere? They can never give what they do not have. Religion does not produce excellence, they should embrace education unto transformation and abandon fanaticism and extremism.”

David Ologun opined that the Northern region is causing underdevelopment for the country.

He wrote, “Do you now expect a country that is run by nepotism and mediocrity to develop and advance... Anyone saying that north and south should be governed under one system of government should consider himself or herself as a terrorist... The north is dragging every region back.”

Emeka Okoye sympathetically wrote: “My brother, I'm personally sorry about what you people went through. It's most unfortunate that we found ourselves in this mess. As you can see, the man who robbed you people of that opportunity, is a man who never had any certificate. He never went to school and as such, he doesn't know the value of education. He didn't know the meaning of losing a country's best to another country. We are already suffering from the effect of capital flight caused by a bunch of mediocres in the position of power.”

Chris Chukwuchebe said, “Simply because his own Northern brothers didn't pass the exam. So the position of a successful candidate was eventually given to a failure. Nigeria will never move forward.”

Bamituni Abamu explained, “What people have to understand was that this scholarship was different. It was based on merit for first-class students who were required to take an exam. No different cut off mark.

This means even first-class graduates from the North also took the exam but unfortunately failed. There was no nepotism in this. It was based on merit and not the quota system or federal character. The only nepotism came from Buhari. Those students were supposed to come back and help build Nigeria but Buhari has set us back once again with his nepotistic and bigoted views.”

A Twitter user, @Olaide_Oseni linked the issue to the incessant calls for secession across the country. He wrote, “This is the reason Nigeria is about to fall apart under the rulership of President @MBuhari... His style of ruling gives priorities to a region at the detriment of the other five regions that make up this country... I am sure Nigeria will survive this one too.”

@VEzike wrote, “An all-inclusive government does not mean that you jettison merit. Else, there would be no incentive to work hard. But then, the rejection of merit has always been the bane of Nigeria. This is why each region should be allowed to develop at their own pace.”

@charaxonlinehub opined that it is better to build a nation on the tenets of hard work and merit rather than nepotism and tribalism.

“This is the ugly path we have chosen. Fanning the embers of tribalism and nepotism. Let's focus on building a nation where merits and hard-working thrive. No nation had ever survived the destructive tendencies of tribalism.”

Princew30576157 said, “The North can’t survive without the quota system. They are nowhere in education, science and technology. That’s why when you see Nigerians winning in Europe, it’s always the South. The North starts and ends in the North.”

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Are u Shocked? Are u suprised?
I am not. It is so visible for the blind to see

I hope this man wont be remembered as Nigeria former president because he represented backwardness, nepotism, failure and he is a sore looser.

No surprise here

Buhari is not the problem. Everybody knew what he was about. Even his own Northern brothers knew how tribalistic he is. Go and read IBB's coup speech in 1985 and even there he refers to Buhari not being ideal for a complex country like Nigeria.
Yet despite all this Tinubu forced him on the SW. Even worse after seeing how useless and tribalistic he was SW voters voted for him again in 2019. I am sorry but they are to blame for everything the south has suffered since 2015. It's the ultimate insult that the same Tinubu thinks he can come and be president.

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He is the worst ever so no surprises

Biafra is our hope

Every day i get further confirmation that i’ve made the right choice in turning my back on ‘one Nigeria’ and instead support a independent Biafra or Alaigbo Republic!

Buhari and his band of daft followers are -besides the uncivil war- the worst thing to ever happen to this country!

A people don’t have the mental capacity to compete at the elite level, yet they insist they must be running everything in a complex and diverse country as Nigeria! Any wonder our fortunes in all indices have nosedived since the bigot-in-Chief stole the election in 2015 with the help of some deluded moro’ns in the south who thought they were doing Ndigbo?

The sooner we detach ourselves from all these fools, the better for us!

Your parents, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters expected a better Nigeria after mortgaging their future with a bag of rice and a bottle of groundnut oil in 2015.
Nigerians deserve the type of rulers that they have, it serves you folks right.
Certainly, some of you will never get sense even in the next life.

They didn't know Buhari's password then. The applicants should have technically engaged in exam malpractice to make qualifying grades to provide 20 slots to cows and 10 slots to fulani herdsmen.

bjdon:
Buhari is not the problem. Everybody knew what he was about. Even his own Northern brothers knew how tribalistic he is. Go and read IBB's coup speech in 1985 and even there he refers to Buhari not being ideal for a complex country like Nigeria.
Yet despite all this Tinubu forced him on the SW. Even worse after seeing how useless and tribalistic he was SW voters voted for him again in 2019. I am sorry but they are to blame for everything the south has suffered since 2015. It's the ultimate insult that the same Tinubu thinks he can come and be president.

I beg to differ and this is the reason why. You guys give tinubu too much credit and you people refuse to put the blame where it belongs. Yes tinubu did everything to clinch the apc presidential ticket for buhari, but then tinubu was in the opposition party at the time. Has tinubu ever been a president or had he ever successfully produced a president, well the answer was no. It was Obasanjo who was both a civilian and miliary head of state that did the inner workings to make buhari president. He wanted to show jonathan, that i made you and i can also remove you. Saraki a serving senator and a former chairman of the governors forum decamped with his serving governor, amaechi also decamped, oyinlola obj's number 1 loyalist also decamped. Many pdp stalwarts decamped and the pdp chairman and security adviser stayed in the party to kill it from within. Sambo Dasuki who was jonathans national security adviser also donated money to buhari's campaign while he was still in jonathans government. Obasanjo tore his pdp membership card on national tv to signal to everyone that he had withdrew his support for jonathan.
Look the northerners have only one person they reckon with in the south and it is obasanjo, because they see him as their oga, brother and friend. Two times obasanjo has ruled and both times he handed over to the NW. Obasanjo used his loyalist within the party to sabotage jonathan from within. Jonathan's major crime was not removing his deputy Namadi Sambo for a more core north candidate in the north like former governor of jigawa sule lamido who is an obasanjo loyalist. Although Namadi Sambo is a former governor of kaduna his father is actually from auchi, edo state. So some northern elites felt jonathan is a south south christian, while namadi sambo is a south south muslim.

[quote author=November1857 post=100757703]Nigerians React To First-Class Graduate's Claim Buhari Rejected List Of Scholarship Beneficiaries Because There Was No Northerner

Nigerians on social media have continued to react to claims by a first-class graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and current doctoral student of the University of Toronto, Chidozie Ojobor, that President Muhammadu Buhari sacrificed merit for federal character upon his election.

Ojobor had revealed how he and several other first-class graduates of institutions across Nigeria were shortlisted to take the Presidential Special Scholarship (PRESSID) designed by former President Goodluck Jonathan, exclusively for first-class Nigerian graduates who wanted to further their studies in any university across the world.

According to him, he had taken the examination with 16 of his colleagues who were also Graduate-Assistants at the UNN and being a computer-based test, each of them got to know their scores immediately.

He said in February 2015, the list of 101 successful candidates shortlisted for the scholarship programme was published in the national dailies.

Ojobor said he had already applied to Princeton University, Imperial College London and University of Toronto and had high hopes of clinching the $250, 000 (about N50,000,000 at the time at the rate of $1/N200) worth of scholarship.

He said there was, however, a twist in fate when Jonathan lost the presidential election to Buhari. Ojobor said shortly after Buhari was sworn in, he complained that there was no single northerner on it.

He alleged that Buhari kicked against the list because he considered it as an agenda of the South, which made him and others to lose such a huge opportunity.


How Buhari Rejected List Of Beneficiaries Of Scholarship Initiated By Jonathan Because There Was No Northern Beneficiary — First-Class Graduate
8 Comments21 Hours Ago
The scholarship was worth about $250,000 per person (tuition and living expenses inclusive across 5 years).

His revelation has continued to generate backlash as many Nigerians said such further demonstrates the president's penchant for nepotism and ethnocentrism in his appointments.

Social media user, Adeyeye Olabode, claimed he knows about the scholarship scheme and the role President Buhari played. He stated further that nepotism will stunt the growth of the country.
 
He wrote, “The truth is that the North is still backward with education, and they must not drag the south backwards too. I know about the scholarship, and I knew so many beneficiaries of it until Buhari came and stopped everything.

“Things like this will not make Nigeria develop because we are talking about academic excellence, and they are still thinking about the quota system. In foreign countries, we have seen how so many Nigerians are excelling academically. How many are from the North? Anything that requires merit, let's forget about dominance again.”

For Kelvin Igwe, merit has always been sacrificed not only in the academic world but even in other aspects of the economy.

He wrote: “Any nation that short-changes merit for quota system will fail. For instance, the federal high court judge nominated for ICC that doesn't have basic knowledge of court proceedings, in the midst of eminently qualified judges.”

Adegbola Oluwatoyin said, “How can a people who have no regard for excellence and education produce first-class? It's obvious in the way Nigeria is being governed. Can't you see mediocrity everywhere? They can never give what they do not have. Religion does not produce excellence, they should embrace education unto transformation and abandon fanaticism and extremism.”

David Ologun opined that the Northern region is causing underdevelopment for the country.

He wrote, “Do you now expect a country that is run by nepotism and mediocrity to develop and advance... Anyone saying that north and south should be governed under one system of government should consider himself or herself as a terrorist... The north is dragging every region back.”

Emeka Okoye sympathetically wrote: “My brother, I'm personally sorry about what you people went through. It's most unfortunate that we found ourselves in this mess. As you can see, the man who robbed you people of that opportunity, is a man who never had any certificate. He never went to school and as such, he doesn't know the value of education. He didn't know the meaning of losing a country's best to another country. We are already suffering from the effect of capital flight caused by a bunch of mediocres in the position of power.”

Chris Chukwuchebe said, “Simply because his own Northern brothers didn't pass the exam. So the position of a successful candidate was eventually given to a failure. Nigeria will never move forward.”

Bamituni Abamu explained, “What people have to understand was that this scholarship was different. It was based on merit for first-class students who were required to take an exam. No different cut off mark
Brother the scholarship is not meant for you, nobody can stop what belongs to you.let by gone be by gone and move on with your life.

no be northerners, say Muslim northerners

Zombies will still defend their darling daddy Buhari.

All Hail Buhari the king of Nepotism.
What does Buhari know about Academic Merit?
Even the Electric bill of a Pry Sch certificate the clueless Buffon got was based on quota system.
He joined the army based on quota system, grew in the Military and became Military President and civilian president based on quota system.
He even married Aisha based on quota system. How else could he have married such a beautiful woman?
Quota system kee him there!!!

Yorubas knew all this and still voted Buhari just for one reason to spite Igbos

This ethnic biased injustice should not be swept under the carpet. Good thing that Buhari is back so he can revisit their demand

justice2010:


I beg to differ and this is the reason why. You guys give tinubu too much credit and you people refuse to put the blame where it belongs. Yes tinubu did everything to clinch the apc presidential ticket for buhari, but then tinubu was in the opposition party at the time. Has tinubu ever been a president or had he ever successfully produced a president, well the answer was no. It was Obasanjo who was both a civilian and miliary head of state that did the inner workings to make buhari president. He wanted to show jonathan, that i made you and i can also remove you. Saraki a serving senator and a former chairman of the governors forum decamped with his serving governor, amaechi also decamped, oyinlola obj's number 1 loyalist also decamped. Many pdp stalwarts decamped and the pdp chairman and security adviser stayed in the party to kill it from within. Sambo Dasuki who was jonathans national security adviser also donated money to buhari's campaign while he was still in jonathans government. Obasanjo tore his pdp membership card on national tv to signal to everyone that he had withdrew his support for jonathan.
Look the northerners have only one person they reckon with in the south and it is obasanjo, because they see him as their oga, brother and friend. Two times obasanjo has ruled and both times he handed over to the NW. Obasanjo used his loyalist within the party to sabotage jonathan from within. Jonathan's major crime was not removing his deputy Namadi Sambo for a more core north candidate in the north like former governor of jigawa sule lamido who is an obasanjo loyalist. Although Namadi Sambo is a former governor of kaduna his father is actually from auchi, edo state. So some northern elites felt jonathan is a south south christian, while namadi sambo is a south south muslim.

Your right and on point.

ok