National Chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr John Odigie-Oyegun, Monday, August 31, 2015, enjoined Nigerians not to bicker over the development, and assured that the President will balance appointments across all the geo-political regions. He stated that most of the appointments made so far were the personal staff of the president.
Oyegun spoke, yesterday, in Abuja when he received a delegation from MBO Dynamic Support Group, led by its national coordinator, Usman Ibrahim at the party’s national secretariat.
Speaking on the uproar generated by the appointments, Oyegun said: “There have been a lot of unfortunate misinformation and uproar against appointments at this stage. We have two sets of appointments that have taken place. One set is the personal privilege of Mr. President, as far as his personal staff are concerned.
“The other set has to do with a few important and strategic persons that are going to help him either in the fight against corruption or the fight against insurgency in the North-east, but this is not where to play the political balancing game. These are serious appointments and the President has the right to appoint those he has confidence in because these are the areas where he has made promises to Nigerians.
“But we have thousands of political appointments and he has just made a few appointments while thousands are still waiting. The balancing must happen when the political appointments are being made but we must not at this particular point in time, with the few appointments, say that one must be from the North, one must be from South or from the East; not at this stage.
“So, one must make that clear at this stage. Nobody, no leader can disadvantage any part of this nation, that will not happen.”
Also speaking on the anti-corruption fight of President Buhari, the national chairman stated that only the guilty would be afraid of probes.
“If a particular group has ruled for 16 years, then who is guilty of corruption? And all the fight, witch-hunting are neither here nor there. What is important is that everybody who has a skeleton in his cupboard, is the one who has something to fear, if you do not have any skeleton in your cupboard, you go to sleep and sleep very sound but of course if you have, you will pretend and try to divert attention,” he said.
