Buhari’s lopsided appointments: The North fires back!

By Wale Akinola

A group, Concerned Elders of the North, CEN, in answer to the accusation of lopsided appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari, made by some aggrieved people from the South, has released a list of some appointments made by the Goodluck Jonathan government.

Jonathan vs Buhari

It claimed that what Buhari has done is that he has merely chosen people he knows well as his personal staff “which is to be expected of any serious President”.

The appointments made by Buhari include his ADC, the State Chief of Protocol, the National Security Adviser, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and the DG, SSS.

The list of the appointments by the Jonathan administration, sent to Sunday Vanguard by the group, at the weekend, is made up of people from the South.

The first group of 13 appointees (a minister, the SGF and heads of parastatals) were from the South-East while most of those in the second group of 37 were mostly from the South-East and the South-South.

The Jonathan govt appointments

A: THE SOUTH-EAST LIST

1. NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA – Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance


2. BRIGHT OKOGWU – DG Budget


3. EMEKA EZE – DG BPP


4. ARUNMA OTEH – DG SEC


5. OSCAR ONYEMA – DG NSE


6. CHIKE OBI – MD AMCON


7. CHINELU ONUOHA – DG PENCOM


8. GODWIN EMEFIELE – CBN Governor


9. UCHE ORJI – M D Sovereign Wealth Fund


10. SUNNY IROHA – DG Housing F und


11. EVELYN OPUTA – MD BANK OF INDUSTRY


12. NNENNA ORJI – Chairman, Investments, Securities Tribunal


13. ANYIM PIUS ANYIM – SGF

B: SOUTH-EAST AND SOUTH-SOUTH LIST

1. DR. ANTHONY ANUFOROM  – NIMET


2. ENGR. ANDREW YAKUBU – NNPC


3. PATRICK APOBOLOKEMI – NIMASA


4. MRS. CHINEBO ANOHU AMAZU – PENCOM


5. ENGR. CHUKWU AMUCHI – FERMA


6. MR. GEORGE OSAHON – DPR


7. MRS. EVELYN OPUTU – Bank of Industry


8. ERNEST NWANPA – Nigerian Content Dev. Agency


9. MRS. DUPE ATOKI – Consumer Protection Agency


10. ENGR. EUGENE JUWAH – NCC


11. ENGR. NNAMDI UDOH – NAMA


12. ENGR. AKIKUOTU – NCAA


13. GEORGE URIESI – FAAN


14. CAPT. CHINERE KALU – NCATY


15. DR. PAUL ORHII – NAFDAC


16. Dr. (MRS) G.N. ELEMO – FIIRO


17. ORON JOSHUA OKPO – Maritime Academy of Nigeria


18. ENGR. SEYI SIJUWADE – Railway Corporation


19. MRS. SALLY MBANEFOH – Nigerian Tourism Dev. Corporation


20. DR. BRIGHT OKOGWU – Budget Office of the Federation


21. PROF. GODSWILL OBIOMA – NERDC


22. MR. R.R. ORYA – NEXIM


23. DR. JOSEPH ODUMODU – Standards Organisation of Nigeria


24. EMEKA NKEM MBA – Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation


25. PROF. LONGMAS WAPMUK – Industrial Training Fund


26. PROF. JULIUS OKOJIE – National Universities Commission


27. MRS. N.S. BENEBO – NESREA


28. DR. PRECIOUS GBENJO – MDG Office


29. PETER CHIGOZIE – Surveyor General of the Federation


30. DR. YEMI KALE – Statistician General of the Federation


31. MR. JONAH OTUNLA – Accountant General of the Federation


32. SAMUEL YONONGO UKARA – Auditor General of the Federation


33. MIKE OMIERI – National Orientation Agency


34. OLUREMI OYO   –  News Agency of Nigeria (OLUREMI OYO was replaced by IMA NIBORO from the South South)


35. DAVID I. ADELUGBA – NEPC E/S


36. MR. OLUGBENGA KUYE – NEPZA


37. PETER GODSDAY ORUBEBE – Niger Delta Ministry, etc.

 

Buhari’s lopsided appointments: The North fires back!