Senator Femi Okunrounmu has chided President Muhammadu Buhari for his perceived lopsided appointments which are clearly tilted in favour of the North, also taking a swipe at the Yoruba’s who helped install the president despite earlier warning.
Okunrounmu, who was the Chairman of the defunct Presidential Advisory Committee on National Conference spoke with Punch over the weekend where the enthused thus: “As a Yoruba man, I am very uncomfortable with this (appointments). Buhari has a reputation for ethnic bias and when we said it during the election, they said we were lying.
“Clearly, his body language and the body language of all his lieutenants show that they are not keen on implementing the resolutions of the conference.
“However, in spite of that, those of us who believe it is the panacea to the problems of this nation shall not stop putting pressure on the President and all other organs of government to let them see that this is the way forward.
“The change the APC was talking about meant two different things. The APC in the North saw change as an opportunity to return power to the region while those in the South-West were looking for genuine social change. At the end, the North just used the South-West to get into Aso Rock and now we are regretting it.
“Look at the power configuration in Nigeria today, there are three arms of government: The executive, the legislature and the judiciary.
“The executive is headed by Buhari who is a northerner; the two arms of the legislature which are the Senate and the House of Representatives, are headed by northerners: Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, respectively.
“The Chief Justice, Mahmoud Mohammed, who heads the judiciary, is also a northerner. So, the entire government is completely in the hands of northerners.”
Okunrounmu also lampooned the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for using his position to get South Westerners to vote for Buhari, saying that the Vice Presidency which went to the South West, had no constitutional bearing in the scheme of things.
He said: “I have never hesitated in telling people that Tinubu is not the right leader for the Yoruba race. He is not truthful and that was why Gani Fawehinmi took him to court.”
