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Criticism across the country followed the disclosure by the World Bank that President Muhammadu Buhari asked it to focus its activities on Northern Nigeria.
Prominent northern leader, Dr Junaid Mohammed, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Afenifere, National Chairman of the United Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose and some legal practitioners, in separate interviews with Saturday Tribune, on Friday, described the president as sectional for giving the directive to the World Bank.

Buhari’s directive to World Bank has proved him as an ethnic bigot —IYC

Factional national president of the Ijaw Youth Council (Worldwide), Comrade Eric Omare, said that the directive given to the World Bank to focus on developing the North has proved its long-time submission that President Buhari is an ethnic bigot.
Omare, speaking with Saturday Tribune on phone in Warri, Delta State, on Friday, described the directive as “unfortunate, unpresidential and unacceptable to the Niger Deltans and other parts of the country.”
He contended that there was nothing happening in the North that has not happened or not happening in the Niger Delta region, adding, “Buhari is only demonstrating what he has said before and what he stands for. It’s unfortunate and highly condemnable.
“There’s nothing that’s happening in the North East that’s not happening or has not happened in the Niger Delta. If we have IDPs in the North East, we also have IDPs in the Niger Delta and there hasn’t been given any presidential directive to address the devastation in the region.
“The directive to the World Bank only came because the president came from the North. He’s a sectional president. Buhari is an ethnic bigot and we highly condemn such directive to the World Bank in favour of the North and at the detriment of other parts of the country, especially the Niger Delta region.”

Buhari, a sectional leader-Fayose

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said he was not surprised by the comment from the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, that President Buhari specifically directed that the financial institution should shift its focus to Northern Nigeria.
He said “the president has never hidden the fact that he is a sectional leader and, painfully, because of his nepotism, religious bigotry and favouritism, Nigeria is now more divided than ever before, with the unity of the country being threatened.
“The father-figure of this country is President Buhari and if his language does not represent unity, there will be agitations like we are witnessing now. I therefore restate my commitment to the call for full and total restructuring of Nigeria through dialogue and negotiation,” he said.

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