Some eminent socio-cultural leaders from the South and Middle-Belt have sued the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , for N50bn over alleged marginalisation of the people of the regions in the
appointments to security, quasi-security agencies and “strategic agencies” of government by the Buhari regime.
Among the plaintiffs are an Ijaw leader, Chief E. K. .Clarke, the Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Dr John Nwodo, a leader of the Middle Belt people, Dr Pogu Bitrus, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Alaowei Bozimo, Mrs Sarah Doketri, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife and Air Commodore Idongsit Nkanga.
“Under the current first defendant’s administration which has been in power since May 29, 2015, several sensitive government positions and agencies are dominated by persons of the same ethnic and religious group, state and geographical zones,” the lawyers argued. They also listed the appointments of heads of national security-associated Federal Government establishments, such as the Nigerian Civil Defense and Security Corps, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Nigerian Customs and Excise Service, the Nigerian Immigration Services, the Nigerian Correctional Services, the National Emergency Management Authority, and the National Youth Service Corps, the National Security Adviser.
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