Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina
has called on those criticizing his principal for appointing mostly
northerners into his government to first look at how qualified those
appointed are for such positions, adding that it is the President’s prerogative to appoint whoever he pleases into his government.
While enjoining those already crying wolf over Buhari’s early appointments
to first take cognizance of “the personal merit of each person that has
been appointed,” he stressed that: “You cannot run away from the fact
that each person appointed merits the position. They are qualified!”
Adesina,
who made this known Friday while speaking on RayPower’s flagship
programme monitored by DAILY POST in Abuja, said: “But then in terms of
the spread, the thing I will also like to say is that the President has
the prerogative to make appointments and he knows that there is federal
character in our constitution. I’m sure he bears that in mind as he
makes the appointments that will come in the future.
“I believe that at the end of it all, there is going to be a balance.
“These
are still early days in the appointments he is going to make. At the
end of it all, I believe we are going to have a balance,” he stated.
Responding
to the need for Buhari to make appointments bearing in mind that
Nigerians of northern extraction are already leading the legislature and
the judiciary, Adesina said: “Let’s not forget that some of those were
by elections, some were statutorily the next person in rank. There is
nothing the president can do about that. If it’s by election, what will
he do about it? Because he doesn’t control the election; the National
Assembly came by election.”
“For the ones he can control, there
are still so many ahead,” he said stressing that any position can be key
depending on the way the person appointed into the position “applies
himself to that position.”
On whether Nigerians can begin to
expect ministerial list, the Presidential spokesman assured that Buhari
will keep to the September dateline given by him. He added that,
“September is just next month and it has 30 days. I believe that within
those thirty days, the job will be done.”
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