Editorial: The federal system has been so bastardised that most of Buhari’s appointments had no recourse to either equitable distribution or merit. Nigeria Buhari Appointments
The organic content of this editorial had been written before the retired soldier’s bombshell, which was widely reported yesterday. And so Umar’s love letter to the President only confirmed the constancy of truth at such a time as this: that the biggest trouble with the Buhari administration is the elephant in the room variously tagged as “lopsided appointments,” ‘‘nepotism,” “sectionalism”, ‘‘parochialism,’’ etc.
For clarity, the Section 14 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, provides in detail that: “the composition of the government of the federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few states or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in the...
The point at issue today, is that the subsisting constitutional provision has been honoured in the breach than in its observance by the Buhari-led administration. The federal system has been so bastardised that most of Buhari’s appointments had no recourse to either equitable distribution or merit. What is worse, even the composition of the Federal Character Commission itself has no regard for federal character.
Meanwhile, there are much more around Abuja to widen the eyebrow.
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