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THERE was an outrage in the ruling All
Progressives Congress on Thursday over the
announcement of new appointments by President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Leaders of the APC, who spoke to The PUNCH ,
complained that the appointments tilted in favour
of the North and said the party must move fast
to cope with the backlash of expected rumblings
in the polity.
“The President does not consult before making
most of these appointments and I can tell you
that Nigerians are going to term the party and
the President as a northern party and the
President of Northern Nigeria,” a leader of the
party said to one of our correspondents late on
Tuesday.
Buhari, according to a statement by his Special
Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,
Mr. Femi Adesina, on Thursday approved the
appointment of Babachir David Lawal from
Adamawa State as the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation.
He also named Mr. Abba Kyari from Borno state
as his Chief of Staff.
Other appointments approved by the President,
according to the statement, are those of Col.
Hameed Ibrahim Ali (retd.) as the new
Comptroller-General, Nigerian Customs Service;
Mr. Kure Martin Abeshi, Comptroller-General,
Nigerian Immigration Service; Senator Ita Enang,
Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly
Matters (Senate); and Suleiman Kawu as SSA on
National Assembly Matters (House of
Representatives).
Both Ali and Kawu are from Kano State and
Abeshi is from Nasarawa. Enang from Akwa
Ibom State is the only one from the south geo-
political zone.
Adesina said all the appointments would take
immediate effect.
Three top national officers of the APC, who
spoke with one of our correspondents on
condition of anonymity shortly after the
announcements were made, wondered why the
President was appointing only northerners to
positions to the detriment of the southerners.
They said that the President was already giving
the party a bad name among Nigerians. They
said they had hoped that he would learn from
the criticisms that trailed his first appointments
where more northerners were appointed into
sensitive positions than southerners.
Before the latest appointments, the President
had also named only one southerner among the
initial nine appointments he made.
The northerners in the first appointments are the
Director-General of the State Services, Lawal
Daura; Acting Chairman of the Independent
National Electoral Commission, Mrs. Amina
Zakari; the Director, Department of Petroleum
Resources, Mr. Mordecai Danteni Baba Ladan;
and the Accountant-General of the Federation,
Alhaji Ahmed Idris.
Also in the first appointments are the President’s
Chief Security Officer, Abdulrahman Mani; State
Chief of Protocol, Mallam Abdullahi Kazaure;
Aide- De-Camp, Lt. Col. Muhammed Abubakar;
and the Senior Special Assistant on Media and
Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.
Only the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity,
Mr. Femi Adesina, hailed from Osun Staten in the
South-West.
Another APC leader said the party must devise a
way of managing the backlash that would follow
the appointments.
He said, “Though the President did not get much
votes from the South-East but we must not
neglect the zone in key appointments.
“Even the South-West that supported and was
the backbone of the party, what are we giving
the zone in appreciation? We need to be careful
before the party is destroyed.”
It was gathered that some leaders of the party
were already thinking of having an enlarged
meeting where the appointments would be
reviewed.
But another senior member of the APC said such
a meeting, if it would hold at all, would have to
wait until the party holds its Kogi State
governorship primary on Saturday.
A member of the state executive of APC in a
South-West state, said the appointments were
lopsided against the South.
He said, “When President Olusegun Obasanjo
took over, you saw balance in appointments as
he reflected federal character. President
Goodluck Jonathan too reflected a semblance of
balance. Buhari is pursuing a northern agenda.
This is the same agenda pursued by the late Sir
Ahmadu Bello, when everything was pro-North.
Buhari made six appointments at a go and five of
them are northerners.”
The Speaker of one of the Houses of Assembly
in the South-West, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, also described the new appointments
as shocking.
The Speaker, who is a member of the APC, said,
“This is shocking. It doesn’t speak well at all.
The South-West has been completely neglected
and the South-East too. The South-West was
neglected during the President Goodluck
Jonathan years. The South-West must rise up
against this.”
Similarly, an APC chairman in another South-
West state, who also spoke on condition of
anonymity, said the list of the new appointees
had left him perplexed.
The chairman said, “This is not good at all. Why
should he choose everybody from the North? I
am sure he did not confide in anybody before
drawing up the list and making the
announcement. We will continue to watch. It is
condemnable.”
In the same vein, an APC member of the House
of Representatives, said the leaders of the party
in the South-West were shocked by Buhari’s
latest appointments.
“He didn’t tell anybody. We are all shocked. The
real shocker would be when he is going to
appoint ministers. The only thing that would save
us is that he is mandated constitutionally to
choose from all states, otherwise, he would have
chosen all the ministers too from the North,” the
female member of parliament said.
The new SGF graduated from the Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria, in 1979 with a Bachelor of
Engineering degree and worked with the Delta
Steel Company, Aladja, Nigerian External
Telecommunications Limited and Data Sciences
Limited before establishing his own ICT and
Telecommunications consulting firm in 1990.
Kyari, the new Chief of Staff to the President,
holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the
University of Cambridge and the University of
Warwick in Law and Sociology.
The new Comptroller-General of Customs, holds
Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Criminology.
He was military administrator of Kaduna State
from 1996 to 1998.




Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/apc-leaders-angry-as-buhari-appoints-more-northerners/

OP give the names of d APC leaders dat are not bold enuf to come out in d open and creticise PMB .....

If they didnt give their names out.. they are cowards and they shouldn't be taken sirously....
PMB had always made his Intendsion clear on the idea that He will develop NE for if NE is developed it inhabitants will not resort to violence by joining BH.... Wat beta way can he hastily do dat by Appointing pipo from NE as COS and SGF....

By d way no real leader of APC can say dat he wasn't informed or consulted.... any person that brands himself/herself as a leader in dis progressive movement and is shocked by dis lattest development that person/leader was a floor member or a Pawn all along......

PMB the wise one

As long as the appointments are on merit, I dont give a damn.

All we want is the job done

...and the propaganda journalist refused to mention the APC leaders who were outraged. Shior #Wailers


Expect the oniranus below me to comment nonsense, please kindly ignore them for the sake of sanity

Buhari - Ignore Tinubu and continue to appoint Northerners . . . ..

This is hilarious!

Kwakwakwakwakwa!

LOL!
He can change the constitution to enable him chose only Huasas as ministers!

*Even the south west that supported and was the BACKBONE of the party,what are they given in appreciation* its a pity for the south westerners, this is called advanced magarisation

So you mean APC leaders are also wailing?



The funny thing is that they keep sending Mr. Femi Adesina from the South West to be announcing the appointments. Jisos

Truth is gradually emanating. They now agree that jonathan maintained balance in his appointments quo? some nigerians have just been one-chanced

gaetano:
So you mean APC leaders are also wailing?

OH LAWD!!! YOU A SLAYER. ALL HAIL KING OF THE NORTH.

Am highly disappointed in PMB bt nt fully...



I will judge him in the next 2yrs wen I see the outcome or positive impact of the northern people he appointed,if they dnt deliver it means av wasted my vote

In PMB I stil bliv


U quote me nd spil trash thunder fire yer left ball

"He didn't tell anybody at all, we are all shocked". Na so south west take cast

hyfr:
"He didn't tell anybody at all, we are all shocked". Na so

That sounds like Lai Lie Mohammed

ok

sunnyb0b0:
That sounds like Lai Lie Mohammed

. Femi adesina don cast

hyfr:
"He didn't tell anybody at all, we are all shocked". Na so south west take cast

Happens when a people vote with their belly and not their brain!
More surprises yet to come!!!!

hyfr:
Truth is gradually emanating. They now agree that jonathan maintained balance in his appointments quo? some nigerians have just been one-chanced

God punish Jonathan.. If you mention that failure again, I will curse your generation

I didn't expect less from him and to that Party leader crying Goat and Fowl over his appointments: Weldone, You have been Noticed, please sit. You were part of those shouting "NEPA bills" during the election period, so what's the fuss when he is sidelining suyaing you??

Hahahhahaha.

kamair237:
OP give the names of d APC leaders dat are not bold enuf to come out in d open and creticise PMB .....

If they didnt give their names out.. they are cowards and they shouldn't be taken sirously....
PMB had always made his Intendsion clear on the idea that He will develop NE for if NE is developed it inhabitants will not resort to violence by joining BH.... Wat beta way can he hastily do dat by Appointing pipo from NE as COS and SGF....

By d way no real leader of APC can say dat he wasn't informed or consulted.... any person that brands himself/herself as a leader in dis progressive movement and is shocked by dis lattest development that person/leader was a floor member or a Pawn all along......

PMB the wise one

God Bless You

I love PMB northern appointments so far, we all are enjoying the CHANGE the hypnotised SW voted for

anigbajumo:
Am highly disappointed in PMB bt nt fully...



I will judge him in the next 2yrs wen I see the outcome or positive impact of the northern people he appointed,if they dnt deliver it means av wasted my vote

In PMB I stil bliv


U quote me nd spil trash thunder fire yer left ball

with all you've seen you still hope to see good? No No No yours is not one chance is double chance

OtunbaJega:
God punish Jonathan.. If you mention that failure again, I will curse your generation

beautiful nonsense

OtunbaJega:
God punish Jonathan.. If you mention that failure again, I will curse your generation

beautiful nonsense. Is it only when a man puts a knife at your throat you will know he wants to kill you?

sunnyb0b0:
That sounds like Lai Lie Mohammed

You thinks it's coincidental that he was named Lie Muhammed?? You are still asking why his tenet speaks volume.

Na GEJ give room for all these. Instead of managing the nation well with trusted technocrats, he handed it over to Dezeani and NOI. Pardoning convicts and explaining how stealing is not same as corruption.

Welcome to the Federal Republic of Nothern Nigeria!

hyfr:
with all you've seen you still hope to see good? No No No yours is not one chance is double chance

4get,hw wil a sane person judge a govmnt in jst 100daes in office...


I dnt vote for appointments to b skew to my region buh good governance..

If the northerner can decide the future of dis country to get better,i av no wahala wif dat...



others that av been appointed so far (from my region),was dat increase my income?

Which position Amaechi go come get now, lol ...

anigbajumo:
4get,hw wil a sane person judge a govmnt in jst 100daes in office...


I dnt vote for appointments to b skewed to my region buh good governance..

If the northerner can decide the future of dis country to get better,i av no wahala wif dat...



others that av been appointed so far (from my region),was dat increase my income?

Heeei. Did I say its bad for northerners to be appointed? I was only expressing the shock some party members felt and that's all. Btw I'm not even nigerian. #i rep ghana

This is to tell you that PDP is truly a national party, and APC a regional party

hyfr:
Heeei. Did I say its bad for northerners to be appointed? I was only expressing the shock some party members felt and that's all. Btw I'm not even nigerian. #i rep ghana

So u dnt need to quote me then