AYO FAYOSE - "Buhari is a northern president"

It is always explosive whenever Fayose makes the news. In a
press statement from the Ekiti state Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said President Mohammadu Buhari was operating as a president of the Northern
Nigeria only, describing steps taken by the president since May 29,
2015 as tainted in ethnic and tribal colouration, which is inimical
to the unity of Nigeria.
The governor, who descried what he called President Buhari’s
“Nothernisation of Nigeria,” said “appointments made by the
President so far negate the principle of federal character and it
appears the unity in diversity of Nigeria is being taken for granted
by the President.”
According to a statement issued on Monday, by his Special
Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, Governor Fayose said it was wrong for President Buhari
to have made 31 major appointments and only seven will come
from the South while 24 were from the North.
He asked; “Under Buhari, are people from Southern Nigeria only
meant to be hounded and harassed by anti-corruption agencies
and the Department of State Security (DSS) while those from the
North are meant to enjoy federal government juicy appointments?”
The governor said “apart from lopsided appointments being made
by the President, I am worried that construction of Lagos-Ibadan
expressway has been slowed down while work has stopped on
Lokoja-Abuja roads, which are the major roads linking the
Southern part of Nigeria with the North.
“Also, we have been told by the Federal Government that the
Second Niger Bridge project has been suspended and one is now
beginning to remember how Buhari cancelled the Lagos Metroline
Project in 1985 at a loss of over $78 million (then) to the Lagos
tax payers.”
Governor Fayose, who maintained that Nigeria can only move
forward if there was equity and fairness, said those who made the
country’s constitution and enshrined the principle of Federal
Character were mindful of the ethnic diversity of the country,
adding that President Buhari’s running Nigeria as if he was a
Northern Nigeria’s President was not in the interest of the country.
“They said the President made the appointments on merit and I
wish to ask whether there are no competent people in the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southern part of Nigeria,
especially South-East where no one has been appointed.
“Are they saying Igbo leader like Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, who
graduated with a first class honours degree in Chemical
Engineering at the University of Lagos, is not competent to be
appointed as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)?
“To my mind, these lopsided appointments skewed in favour of the
North is a reminder of President Buhari’s tenure as Military Head
of State and I hope the President is not seeing Nigeria of today as
that of 1984 because doing so will mean that he has turned himself
to a northern president, thereby justifying his notion that those
who gave him 97 percent votes must get more benefits than those
who gave him five percent votes.”