Concern Citizen Condemns injustice meted on South in the Commission


The Federal Character Commission was established with a primary focus of ensuring a strong, virile and indivisible nation, based on fairness, equity, and justice to promote national unity, foster national loyalty and give every citizen a sense of belonging.

Federal Character as such should be example,in the sense that every position in the federal character commission should be distributed based on principal of federal character.

To a deep extent the federal character commission has fail to lead by example in the distribution of positions within the commission

According to the federal character commissions act there shall be a chairman who will serve as the chief executive of the commission too and secretary to the commission,who will serve as secretary to the Commission.

This two positions are very important in the Federal Character commission and is meant to be held by the person from separate regions

If the chairman is from North ,then the secretary to the Commission will be from South and vise versa.

It's unfair that the chairperson is from Kwara state (north) and the secretary is from taraba state(north) both from NORTHERN REGION this is against the principals which the commission stands for.

It's also in history that since the establishment of the Federal Character commission in 1996 that No Southerner or person from South has ever been appointed the chairman of the federal character commission,that position has always been occupied by Northerners or persons from north,this too goes against the principals of federal character ,the position of chairman should rotate between north and south.

Hence it's important for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR through the secretary to the Government of the Federation Sen.George Akume,who the federal character commission is under his supervision correct this injustice meted out on the south, especially southeast in the commission.

It's therefore equity and fairness that chairman federal character commission should come to south and southeast especially after 26 years of establishment of the commission.

Federal Character commission must be made to be an embodiment of what it stands for ,this will be achieved by correcting these abonormalise and strengthening it.