The Interparty Advisor Council (IPAC) has criticised the appointments made by President Bola Tinubu since assuming office, saying that they favoured the South Western part of the country.
National chairman of IPAC, Sani Yabagi, made the criticism while speaking on a television programme yesterday.
Yabagi stated that it was disappointing that President Tinubu, who he said is known to be a Democrat, was following the appointment pattern of his predecessor, Muhammed Buhari by giving undue advantage to the people of his region.
He pointed out that appointments in Nigeria must meet the federal character principle, considering the size and homogeneous state of the country.
According to him, We, at IPAC, expected that the President would demonstrate the democrat that he is. We expected something different from Tinubu; because he is a democrat; but the reverse is the case now. The Constitution has given the President power to appoint people; but, how does he carry others along? There is nobody that can do it rather than President Tinubu, who has lived all his life as a democrat”.
In recent weeks, there has been growing criticism of the President’s appointments, which observers say favours the South-West region where he hails from.
Analysts say key positions in Tinubus cabinet and agencies are given to political associates or people from his region. They noted that the President has fallen into the same nepotistic mistake of the immediate-past president, by surrounding himself with people from the South-West.
Speaking in a statement issued recently by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), also accused President Tinubu of partiality, saying that most of the key appointments in his cabinet were apportioned to individuals from his ethnic group.
The group said the Presidents appointments have shown that he appears to have special consideration for people from his region, especially those with links to Lagos State.
