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Tinubu Presidency Confirms South-East, South-South Got Only One Appointment Each In 22 Nigerian Security, Key Agencies

The Presidency has confirmed that President Bola Tinubu’s appointments of security heads is against the Federal Character Act, while highlighting how it is skewed against the South-East and South-South regions of the country.

Sunday Dare, the Special Adviser to the President on Public Communications and Orientation, on Saturday shared a list of the heads of security agencies appointed by Tinubu.

This distribution, Dare emphasized, reflects the administration’s commitment to equitable representation across Nigeria’s regions.

Meanwhile, Section 14 (3) of the Federal Character Act of the Constitution states as follows, “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."

However, according to Dare’s list, the North-West holds the highest number of security appointments with eight, followed by the South-West with five, and the North-Central with four.

The North East, he noted, has three security chiefs, while the South South and South East have one each.

The list clearly showed the two regions, South South and South East were marginalised by the President in disregard of the Federal Character Act in the Nigerian constitution.

Some Nigerians had accused Tinubu of “Yorubanisation”—a term implying favouritism toward the Yoruba ethnic group of South-West following the appointment of Major General Olufemi Oluyede as Acting Chief of Army Staff.

Oluyede was appointed to act on behalf of General Taoreed Lagbaja, who is receiving medical treatment abroad.

An exclusive report by SaharaReporters recently showed that sensitive appointments made so far by Tinubu are lopsided as they mainly favoured South-West people.

Checks by the newspaper revealed that most members of the President’s kitchen cabinet led by his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, are from the southwest region.

While Dare’s list consisted of five names from the South West, Yoruba people appointed by Tinubu to key positions as published by SaharaReporters are the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun; Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja who was recently replaced by Major General Olufemi Oluyede; Director General of the Department of State Services, Mr Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi; Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Olanipekun Olukoyede and Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi.

Others are; Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Kemi Nandap; Commander of the Guards Brigade (Presidential Villa), Brigadier General Adebisi Onasanya; Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President, Rasheed Lawal, who recently replaced Adegboyega Fasasi and Aide-De-Camp (ADC) Nurudeen Yusuf, a Yoruba man from Kwara state.

AcuraZDX:
Suddenly Comptroller General of NIS is from North Central by marriage. A proper Yoruba woman from SW don turn Northerner 😂😂

Hotepking:
It's even the South South I pity the most, they are the golden goose that lays the golden eggs as far as feeding this nation goes with their resources, yet they keep getting short-changed.

Zooposki:
Why cry more than the bereaved? Pity yourself.

flokii:
GEJ did far worse during his tenure as he marginalized Yorubas and appointed mostly Igbos into key Agencies and parastatals. The only notable Yoruba appointed by GEJ was Mr. Akinwumi Adeshina so why are the SEners making noise?.
They even went as far as taking up all the slots meant for Lagos State and were filling them with Igbos residing in Lagos , neglecting the indigenous people. First to do no dey pain.

Nonny95:
Out of 22 appointments, SS and SE got one each, and the Mugu had the guts to defend it.

He even turned NYSC into security agency😂😂😂.

This Tinubu administration is full of idiots.