Buhari’s lopsided appointments: The North fires back!

A group, Concerned Elders of the North, CEN, in answer to the accusation of lopsided appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari, made by some aggrieved people from the South, has released a list of some appointments made by the Goodluck Jonathan government. It claimed that what Buhari has done is that he has merely chosen people he knows well as his personal staff “which is to be expected of any serious President”. The appointments made by Buhari include his ADC, the State Chief of Protocol, the National Security Adviser, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and the DG, SSS. The list of the appointments by the Jonathan administration, sent toSunday Vanguardby the group, at the weekend, is made up of people from the South. The first group of 13 appointees (a minister, the SGF and heads of parastatals) were from the South-East while most of those in the second group of 37 were mostly from the South-East and the South-South. The Jonathan govt appointments A: THE SOUTH-EAST LIST NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA – Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance BRIGHT OKOGWU – DG Budget EMEKA EZE – DG BPP ARUNMA OTEH – DG SEC OSCAR ONYEMA – DG NSE CHIKE OBI – MD AMCON CHINELU ONUOHA – DG PENCOM GODWIN EMEFIELE – CBN Governor UCHE ORJI – M D Sovereign Wealth Fund SUNNY IROHA – DG Housing F und EVELYN OPUTA – MD BANK OF INDUSTRY NNENNA ORJI – Chairman, Investments, Securities Tribunal ANYIM PIUS ANYIM – SGF B: SOUTH-EAST AND SOUTH-SOUTH LIST DR. ANTHONY ANUFOROM – NIMET ENGR. ANDREW YAKUBU – NNPC PATRICK APOBOLOKEMI – NIMASA MRS. CHINEBO ANOHU AMAZU – PENCOM ENGR. CHUKWU AMUCHI – FERMA MR. GEORGE OSAHON – DPR MRS. EVELYN OPUTU – Bank of Industry ERNEST NWANPA – Nigerian Content Dev. Agency MRS. DUPE ATOKI – Consumer Protection Agency ENGR. EUGENE JUWAH – NCC ENGR. NNAMDI UDOH – NAMA ENGR. AKIKUOTU – NCAA GEORGE URIESI – FAAN CAPT. CHINERE KALU – NCATY DR. PAUL ORHII – NAFDAC Dr. (MRS) G.N. ELEMO – FIIRO ORON JOSHUA OKPO – Maritime Academy of Nigeria ENGR. SEYI SIJUWADE – Railway Corporation MRS. SALLY MBANEFOH – Nigerian Tourism Dev. Corporation DR. BRIGHT OKOGWU – Budget Office of the Federation PROF. GODSWILL OBIOMA – NERDC MR. R.R. ORYA – NEXIM DR. JOSEPH ODUMODU – Standards Organisation of Nigeria EMEKA NKEM MBA – Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation PROF. LONGMAS WAPMUK – Industrial Training Fund PROF. JULIUS OKOJIE – National Universities Commission MRS. N.S. BENEBO – NESREA DR. PRECIOUS GBENJO – MDG Office PETER CHIGOZIE – Surveyor General of the Federation DR. YEMI KALE – Statistician General of the Federation MR. JONAH OTUNLA – Accountant General of the Federation SAMUEL YONONGO UKARA – Auditor General of the Federation MIKE OMIERI – National Orientation Agency OLUREMI OYO – News Agency of Nigeria (OLUREMI OYO was replaced by IMA NIBORO from the South South) DAVID I. ADELUGBA – NEPC E/S MR. OLUGBENGA KUYE – NEPZA PETER GODSDAY ORUBEBE – Niger Delta Ministry, etc.