Buhari’s lopsided appointments: The North fires back!

By Wale Akinola

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 to Sunday Vanguard 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

1. NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA – Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance
2. BRIGHT OKOGWU – DG Budget
3. EMEKA EZE – DG BPP
4. ARUNMA OTEH – DG SEC
5. OSCAR ONYEMA – DG NSE
6. CHIKE OBI – MD AMCON
7. CHINELU ONUOHA – DG PENCOM
8. GODWIN EMEFIELE – CBN Governor
9. UCHE ORJI – M D Sovereign Wealth Fund
10. SUNNY IROHA – DG Housing F und
11. EVELYN OPUTA – MD BANK OF INDUSTRY
12. NNENNA ORJI – Chairman, Investments, Securities Tribunal
13. ANYIM PIUS ANYIM – SGF

B: SOUTH-EAST AND SOUTH-SOUTH LIST

1. DR. ANTHONY ANUFOROM  – NIMET
2. ENGR. ANDREW YAKUBU – NNPC
3. PATRICK APOBOLOKEMI – NIMASA
4. MRS. CHINEBO ANOHU AMAZU – PENCOM
5. ENGR. CHUKWU AMUCHI – FERMA
6. MR. GEORGE OSAHON – DPR
7. MRS. EVELYN OPUTU – Bank of Industry
8. ERNEST NWANPA – Nigerian Content Dev. Agency
9. MRS. DUPE ATOKI – Consumer Protection Agency
10. ENGR. EUGENE JUWAH – NCC
11. ENGR. NNAMDI UDOH – NAMA
12. ENGR. AKIKUOTU – NCAA
13. GEORGE URIESI – FAAN
14. CAPT. CHINERE KALU – NCATY
15. DR. PAUL ORHII – NAFDAC
16. Dr. (MRS) G.N. ELEMO – FIIRO
17. ORON JOSHUA OKPO – Maritime Academy of Nigeria
18. ENGR. SEYI SIJUWADE – Railway Corporation
19. MRS. SALLY MBANEFOH – Nigerian Tourism Dev. Corporation
20. DR. BRIGHT OKOGWU – Budget Office of the Federation
21. PROF. GODSWILL OBIOMA – NERDC
22. MR. R.R. ORYA – NEXIM
23. DR. JOSEPH ODUMODU – Standards Organisation of Nigeria
24. EMEKA NKEM MBA – Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation
25. PROF. LONGMAS WAPMUK – Industrial Training Fund
26. PROF. JULIUS OKOJIE – National Universities Commission
27. MRS. N.S. BENEBO – NESREA
28. DR. PRECIOUS GBENJO – MDG Office
29. PETER CHIGOZIE – Surveyor General of the Federation
30. DR. YEMI KALE – Statistician General of the Federation
31. MR. JONAH OTUNLA – Accountant General of the Federation
32. SAMUEL YONONGO UKARA – Auditor General of the Federation
33. MIKE OMIERI – National Orientation Agency
34. OLUREMI OYO   –  News Agency of Nigeria (OLUREMI OYO was replaced by IMA NIBORO from the South South)
35. DAVID I. ADELUGBA – NEPC E/S
36. MR. OLUGBENGA KUYE – NEPZA
37. PETER GODSDAY ORUBEBE – Niger Delta Ministry, etc.