You Can’t Condemn Tinubu’s Lopsided Appointments – PDP Chieftain Slams El-Rufai

Former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State, Silas Onu, has slammed Nasir El-Rufai for criticizing President Bola Tinubu’s appointments.

Barr. Silas Onu accused the former governor of Kaduna State of being silent during former President Muhammadu Bahuri’s regime.

In a statement on Monday, Onu stated that Buhari appointed mostly Northerners during his eight years as president. He noted that El-Rufai as the then governor of Kaduna failed to call Buhari’s attention to his lopsided appointments.

Naija News reported that El-Rufai, in reaction to a column by Farooq Kperogi, advised President Tinubu not to follow nepotism in his appointments.

“Anyone, I mean anyone can criticize Bola Tinubu’s lopsided appointment, but not Nasir El-Rufai.

“Nasir El-Rufai was a champion of Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘northenized’ appointments that even saw a none Nigerian heading an important security outfit. As an influential Governor from the political heartland of northern Nigeria, El’rufai was outstandingly mute and wholly supportive of the Buhari policy.

“Federal Character, Police Act, 2020 and many other valid laws were whimsically ignored by Buhari and El’rufai applauded all through the 8 years of that administration. Therefore, it is absolutely hypocritical for El’rufai to suddenly remember that Nigeria is composed of many different ethnic groups,” Onu said.

The former PDP Senatorial candidate for Ebonyi South emphasized that only a transparent electoral system would change nepotism in Nigeria’s governance.

“If Bola Tinubu decides to tow the path of Buhari, he has a good mentor with an established precedent that is gradually becoming a norm. My only worry is that when an Igbo man becomes President, he is likely to depart from this noble course and attempt to be a nationalist in a nation where sectionalism reigns supreme.

“Whenever Nigeria actually becomes a nation where votes count and governance is about the people generally, we will have serious people in government and this senseless argument of sectionalism will naturally disappear,” he added.