Barely
a week after news hit the media waves about the complaints from
Northerners that they were being discriminated against in army postings,
leaders from the South-West geo-political zone have also accused the
administration of President Goodluck Jonathan of systematically
excluding the Yoruba nation from the federation in terms of appointments
without justification.
The
Yoruba leaders, while addressing a world press conference in Ibadan,
called on President Jonathan to redress the “systematic discrimination”
against the Yoruba nationality in federal appointive positions without
delay, saying that the Yoruba have been getting “crumbs” from the
administration.
The
leaders spoke in unison under the aegis of the Yoruba Unity Forum
(YUF), umbrella body for all Yoruba sons and daughters. They presented a
long list of those at the apex of political power as well as those in
control of the principal economic and financial agencies from which no
South-West person was included, adding that the Yoruba did not deserve
the humiliation it was getting from President Jonathan who was massively
voted for in the region in 2011.
The
list reads in part: “The President (South-South); Vice President
(North-West); Senate President (North Central); Speaker (North-West);
Chief Justice of the Federation (North-West); Deputy Senate President
(South-East); Deputy Speaker (South-East); Acting President Court of
Appeal (North-West); Secretary to the Government of the Federation
(South-East); Chief of Staff (South-South); National Security Adviser
(North-West); Head of Service of the Federation (North-East).
The
list also noted that of the 12 topmost positions in the country, no
single Yoruba person was included. And it continues: “Minister of
Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy (South-East); Governor
of the Central Bank (North-West); Minister of Petroleum (South-South);
GMD NNPC (North-West); Chairman, National Council on Privatisation
(North-West); Comptroller of Customs (North-West); MD Nigerian Ports
Authority (North-West); Minister, National Planning Commission
(North-West); DG, Bureau of Public Procurement (South-East); Acting
Comptroller of Immigration (North); Minister of Power (South-East)”.
TalkOfNaija
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