Former President, Olusegun
Obasanjo has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari ignored federal character
in the appointment of security chiefs.
Obasanjo spoke in Abeokuta Ogun
State on Thursday where he criticized the National Assembly and the Federal
Character Commission for failing to check the excesses of the President in the
uneven distribution of public offices.
He stressed that the ethos of
nation building through even distribution of public offices had been abused
under the current administration.
The former President also noted
that his recent open letter to Buhari was not borne out malice or what he
termed “bad belle” but out of his deep concern for the situation in the
country.
According to Obasanjo, “Let me
emphasise important areas, programmes, priorities or processes for improved
attention. To start with, we seem to have taken nation building for granted.
Nation building must be given continued attention to give every citizen a
feeling of belonging and a stake in his or her country.
“For instance, the Federal Character
principle, as espoused in our constitution, was to guide the leadership to
search for competent holders of major offices to be distributed within the
entire nation, and avoid concentration in a few ethnic hands or geographical
places, as we currently have in the leadership of our security apparatus.
“To avoid such non-integrative
situation, we have the National Assembly and the Federal Character Commission,
both institutions which must raise the alarm or call for correction of actions
by the executive that violates the spirit of our constitution.”
Obasanjo, yesterday, registered
as a member of the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) in Abeokuta, the Ogun
State capital
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