The leading socio-political body of Igbo people in Nigeria, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has chided President Muhammadu Buhari over the latest restructuring of the operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), urging him to review the appointment to route out marginalisation.
The restructuring led to the appointment and redeployment of 55 key executives in its refineries and services subsidiaries.
President-General of Ohanaeze, Nnia John Nwodo, who pointed out that people from the South East region were marginalised from the recent appointments called on President Buhari to urgently fix the loopholes in the interest of peace, unity and good governance.
Nwodo pointed out that the obvious issues of marginalisation such as the recent one at NNPC are reasons why youths in the region are calling for an independent country of their own.
“Ohaneze is appalled at the consistent and unrepentant disposition of disdain for the South-East by Buhari administration as copiously displayed in the recent reorganisation at the NNPC,” the President General said in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja.
“Ohaneze had thought that after the President’s declaration in a broadcast recently that Nigeria’s unity had been settled and not negotiable, that he would take all necessary actions in his governance to achieve it, but the recent NNPC shake-up has not shown that the administration is walking its talk.
“Buhari administration, has shown in the new managers just announced tilting clearly in favour of the North, with the South-East totally ignored, as has always been the case since Buhari administration came to office.
“This brazen disregard, marginalisation and non-compliance with the Federal character provisions in our constitution are the causes of lack of confidence which our youths have in our present governance structure.”
He added that as long as President Buhari continues to live out his speech abroad, that his government will favour those who voted 97 per cent for him against those who voted 5 percent for him, so long will the dissatisfaction and unrest in the country’s political space continue.
