Ekiti State
Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has described the appointment of yet another
northerner, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, as the Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) as a vindication of his position that “President
Muhammadu Buhari is a sectional leader, who sees himself mainly as leader of
the Hausa/Fulani, and not that of the entire people of Nigeria.”
The governor,
who said he had expected that the new INEC chairman will be chosen from one of
the three Southern geo-political zones, especially the South-western part of
the country being the only zone yet to produce chairman of the nation’s
electoral umpire, posited that: “Nigeria has entered a one -chance bus and it
remains to be seen who will save the country from its sectional president.”
Reacting to the
appointment of Yakubu as the new INEC chairman, Fayose said in a statement
signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka that even the Yoruba leaders who promoted and made the Buhari’s
presidency possible had been short-changed.
The governor,
according to NAN, asked: “Shouldn’t he have considered someone from either
South-east, South-south or South-west as chairman of the electoral commission
now that we have a president from the North?
“For reasons of
perception, equity and fairness, don’t we have credible people from the
Southern part of Nigeria that can conduct credible elections as INEC chairman?
Or do we assume that the 2019 elections have already been won and lost by the
appointment of this Hausa/Fulani professor as INEC chairman? Or isn’t it
regrettable that even in 2015, it is only in PDP controlled states that
elections are being upturned?”
He said he was
worried that the three arms of government - the executive, legislature and
judiciary - are headed by northerners, leaving the three zones in the southern
part of the country with nothing.
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