– A group in the Niger delta has expressed displeasure over President Buhari’s appointments
– The group based in Bayelsa state said the appointments so far made by the President are ethnic based
– It said though it loves Buhari, he must right appointment and balance the appointment for national unity and cohesion
After a careful analysis of appointments so far made by President Muhammadu Buhari since his inauguration in 2015, a group of former militants in the Niger Delta, Egbesu United, has said President Buhari’s appointments were lopsided and geared to favour the north.
The group led by General Ebi Ebri, said the action of President Buhari has confirmed the insinuations that the president was ethnically biased in the administration of the country including engagement of persons for national duties.
The Ijaw group in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, told ZENITHBLOG.com that President Buhari has come out plain in his ethnic game of subjugating sections of the country to the Hausa Fulani ethnic nationality, noting that such development was unhealthy for a pluralistic nation as Nigeria.
According to Ebri: “In as much as we love the president, we see him playing the ethnic card associated with leaders of the Hausa Fulani extraction.
Group says from President Buhari’s inauguration in 2015 till date, his appointments are ethnic based and not for national interest
“The appointments made by the President since inception left no Nigerian in doubt about the aged ethnic rivalry that existed between the two major divides of the Nigerian states nay: northern and southerner protectorates prior to the amalgamation of the country in 1914.
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“Except the president rises above tribal sentiments and embraces merit in lieu of ethnic considerations, he may leave Nigeria more divided along ethno-religious divides than he met it in 2015.”
Ebri cited instances of the President’s appointment of ministers to the heads of parastatals, insisting that northern Nigeria has over seventy five percent of the entire appointments made so far under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
The group also accused him of deep rooted ethnicity citing his refusal to appoint a substantive national coordinator for the newly created Riverine Communities Security Programme of the Niger Delta ministry.
The group said the president is only interested in the oil and gas wealth in the Niger delta Delta maintaining that President Buhari has penchant for ignoring those issues that impact directly on the lives of the Niger Delta people.
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The group is calling on the president to appoint a coordinator for the Riverine Communities Security Programmes saying except he wanted Niger Delta people to die of insecurity, then he could leave the programme unattended to.
“We cherish our lives and that of our children and so, the federal government should consider filling the vacuum created by the sack of the would – have -being pioneer coordinator who turned out to be a criminal impostor – self-styled Tikari Danjuma.
“The president knows how important the security of lives and property in the Niger Delta region is to Nigeria and beyond oil and gas wealth, the federal government must put machineries in place for the protection of the people and the government faculties in the region.
“We need agency such as the Riverine Communities Security Programmes,” the group said.
Ebri called on Nigerians not to lose sight of those factors that bind the region together noting that except the people place priority on regional interests on the hallmark of honesty and sincerity, development will elude the region.
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