According to to guardianngr, Ekiti State
Governor Ayodele Fayose has chided President Muhammadu Buhari over replacement
of the sacked National Intelligence
Agency (NIA) Director General, Ambassador
Ayo Oke with Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, a northerner. He said: “The President has
further demonstrated to Nigerians that he is an unrepentant sectional leader,
who does not care about the feelings of people from other parts of the country.
“With the
appointment of Abubakar as the NIA director general, all heads of security
agencies are now northerners and the question is: is this what those who
ensured federal character in our constitution envisaged?”
In a
statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, Fayose said: “Seeing what President Buhari has turned the country to,
the forefathers of Nigeria, who laid the foundation of the country on equity,
justice and fairness will be lamenting wherever they are now.
“Ambassador
Oke was removed from office the same day Babachir Lawal was removed as
Secretary to the Government of the Federation. While Lawal’s replacement came
from his home state, Oke’s replacement came from the north. That is
unacceptable.”
Fayose, who
reminded Nigerians of Buhari’s directive that the World Bank should shift its
focus to the northern region, maintained that “because of the President’s
nepotism, religious bigotry and favouritism, Nigeria is now more divided than
ever before.”He said it remained on record that President of the World Bank
Group, Jim Yong Kim, reportedly said that in his very first meeting with President
Buhari, he (Buhari) said specifically that he would like the global bank to
shift its focus to the northern region.
“President
Buhari has consistently demonstrated that he is an ethnic champion, a religious
bigot and the number one promoter of disunity in Nigeria. This he has done
again with the appointment of yet another northerner as the NIA Director
General.
“Even at a
point, the National Chairman of the President’s party, the All Progressives
Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun had to openly fault the appointments made by
the president, saying that as many as three people were appointed from one ward
in a local government in the north.
“The
implication of what the President has done is that, when security council
meeting is held today, apart from one or two insignificant people, those in the
meeting will be people from one section of the country.
“Even
para-military agencies are headed by people from President Buhari’s section of
the country. This is unfair.” Fayose reminded Nigerians of his earlier warnings
that President Buhari was operating as a president of the northern Nigeria only
and the appointments made by him negated the principle of federal character.
“Those who
argued then that the President made the appointments on merit should come to
the open to tell Nigerians, especially those from the south that there is no
one that merited appointment as director general of NIA. “Those politicians,
who painted the picture of a changed President Buhari to Nigerians before the
2015 presidential election must have seen now that he (Buhari) can never change
from an ethnic champion to a nationalist,” Fayose said.
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