NAIJA NEWS
A civil society organization, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is following the path of his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, by giving key appointments to people from the South-West and Lagosians.
The rights group accused the Nigerian leader of nepotism, asserting that major positions in his government were allotted to citizens from his ethnic group.
HURIWA acknowledged that President Tinubu’s appointment of new Service Chiefs gave hope to Nigerians and drew deserved plaudits in that the portfolios given recognised the nation’s diversity.
The group, however, said Tinubu’s subsequent appointments have departed from that template.
“That the disastrous, previous administration of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) towed a visionless, divisive path, in the overwhelming tribalistic appointments it made, should never excuse this course that fundamentally degrades the legitimate dream of a new, progressive, inclusive Nigerian state,” HURIWA said warning Tinubu not to follow Buhari’s style of appointment in his eight years in power.
Naija News reports that the rights group admonished the Nigerian leader in a statement issued on Monday by its coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubikor, while reacting to the recent appointments of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service given to Yoruba people are an attestation.
“With President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent approval of the nomination of Olayemi Cardoso to serve as the substantive new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), some 48 hours after appointing Zacchaeus Adedeji as the acting chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, the strong perception that the President is pushing an unseemly pro-ethnic agenda became worryingly stronger,” the group said.
It added: “Adedeji is to “serve in an acting capacity for 90 days before his subsequent confirmation as the substantive chairman of FIRS for a term of four years in the first instance.
”With a little over 100 days on the saddle, the President’s appointments have shown he appears to have special consideration for people from his South-West region…
