HURIWA Flays Religous, Geopolitical Imbalance In Ministerial Portfolios

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial appointments saying he concentrated juicy portfolios to the Northwest region of the country.

Besides, critics have also faulted the appointment of two ministers from the North and both Muslims as Minister and Minister of State of the Federal Capital Territory.

HURIWA criticised the appointment of Muslims as ministers of Interior and Defence, noting that all the sensitive security agencies are controlled by Muslims. 

The group, in a statement, on Wednesday, by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and National Media Affairs Director, Zainab Yusuf, raised questions on the status of President Buhari as Nigeria President, stressing that the president should not act as a regional president. 

According to the group, “Mr. Pesident must be a president of nigeria not a President of APC and he must be a statesman especially now that he is ruling for the last tenure. He should leave a legacy of commitment to service and patriotism.”

Part of the statement reads that “We are not happy that most of the cabinet appointments are conered to the northwest, the northwest cornered virtually 50% of the juicy ministries and all of them are senior ministers and he just gave IMO and Abia a minister for states. It is unfair because the Igbo population in Nigeria is not less than 50million and constitutionally either people vote for you or not, you must appoint one minister From each state of the federation.

‘Why will Mr president try to repeat the mistake of his first term when he concentrated all his appointments to Muslims where he had Minister of Defence, all those heading departments and service chiefs, national security adviser, NIA, DSS, Custom, Immigration, Prison, all Muslims which is quite unfortunate.

“Mr. President should not repeat the mistakes he made again unless he is not prepared to bequeath his legacy of statemanship and patriotism to Nigerians. Unless he is prepared to remain a regional leader of the north when he leaves Office.”

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