President Muhammadu Buhari says
he has been impartial in his appointments across the geopolitical zones despite
the low number of votes he received from the south-east during the 2015
elections.
Buhari made the comment in
response to allegations of marginalisation of the Igbo in his appointments.
The president touched on the
matter during an interview aired on Arise Television on Monday.
He said: “Somebody made an
observation (and I made it clear for the first time) that I was not patronising
the Igbo from the south-east. I took the paper from him, I told him that when I
won the election, I studied the amount of votes I got from all the geopolitical
zones.
“I said I got 198,000 something
from the whole of the south-east; 198, 000 which virtually any local government
can give me. But I appointed ministers of foreign affairs, minister of labour,
minister of industries and investment, minister of mines and tech.
“But these four, I never knew
them from Adam. But from seven states of the north, I have ministers of states,
they are under these ministers. How fair do you want me to be?
“So I threw him away with his
paper.”
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you just obeyed the constitution on that and not fairness, the constitution mandates you to do that, most of your speeches and that of your brothers and cronies are always not fair to them.
ReplyDeleteBut the constitution did not mandate him to make senior ministers from certain state. He must have made the effort by himself. I haven’t seen that line of argument of his before, okay let’s give that to him, I am his critic but I feel I should be fair.
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