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 by 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 – Vanguard.
What a blind and brainless argument to put forward by Buhari???!!!
In that list, where are the names of northerners that Jonathan had originally appointed before replacing them afterwards for some reasons???!