Buhari's Lopsided Appointment and Matters Arising

Any confirmation that this Lugardian contraption was far from a nation, came in form of the 2015 election result. The election result exposed the glaring distrust between the ethnic regions, the North voting massively for their son and the East standing behind their brother despite his obvious deficiencies.

One would have expected that such odious revelation will spur leaders into taking bold steps towards rallying a fractious nation. Any hopes that this would happen, was punctured by Buhari's infamous gaffe that his policies would be guided by the demographics of the election result....

So far, PMB's appointments have left no one in doubt that he is implementing his notorious 97% vs 5% policy. While it has often been argued that Federal Character has been a drawback to our nations progress, we also cannot discountenance the fact the it is that Federal character that is still holding this nation together. No region can lay claim to parading men of superior intellect or capable of producing men of unquestionable integrity. So any argument that the the appointments are based on merit, falls flat on its face, given that every region can boast of capable hands if we are willing to search them out.

This lopsided appointment is made worse coming after several weeks of a long wait. One would have expected PMB to have taken his time to search out capable hands from all parts of the Federation. No excuse is tenable to exonerate the obvious marginalization of the Igbos in the appointments made so far. Democracy is threatened when a people are punished for their choices.

As an ardent supporter of the President, one is constrained to defend anomalies like this, which tends to give fillip to the long held belief in some quarters that the PMB is parochial and clannish. 'A man accused of theft should not seen cuddling a goat'.

Let's hope that in the coming appointments, PMB will not give people like Nnamdi Kanu more reason to fight for Biafra knowing that in Nigeria, they are nothing more than conquered second class citizens.
-Offor Honest

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