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APC Leaders Outraged As Buhari’s New Appointments Favours Northerners.

Michael Badejoko by Michael Badejoko
August 28, 2015
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APC Outrage

There was an outburst of rage in the ruling All Progressives Congress on Thursday over the announcement of new appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari.

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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.

Three top national officers of the APC, who spoke 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.

“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.

Another APC leader said the party must devise a way of managing the backlash that would follow the appointments.

“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.”

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, 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, 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.

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.
– Mr. Abba Kyari from Borno state as his Chief of Staff.
– 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);
– 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.

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;
– Accountant-General of the Federation, Alhaji Ahmed Idris.
– President’s Chief Security Officer, Abdulrahman Mani;
– State Chief of Protocol, Mallam Abdullahi Kazaure;
– Aide- De-Camp, Lt. Col. Muhammed Abubakar;
– 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.

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.

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