Don’t create a crisis in Nigeria, make sure your appointments favour all ethnic groups - Sultan, Afenifere warn Buhari

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- President Muhammadu Buhari has been warned by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, to avoid a crisis in Nigeria, and ensure that there is fairness in his appointments and allocation of resources

- The Sultan’s calls were also restated by the Afenifere group, which noted that Abubakar’s comments resonate with complaints about lopsidedness in the president’s appointments

- The Yoruba socio-political group urged the president to create equity in the polity as it stressed that there were qualified persons in all ethnic groups

Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against any lopsidedness in appointments and allocation of resources in the country, Vanguard reports.

The royal father made his comments while delivering a goodwill message at the opening ceremony of a Collaborative Interfaith Peace and Security Capacity Building Workshop, which was organized by the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC), and the Inter-Religious Peace Initiative, in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

NAIJ.com gathers that the Sultan, who was represented at the event by Alhaji Ibrahim Jega, Executive Secretary of the Abuja National Mosque, stated that any injustice in appointments or in the allocation of resources, would only breed crisis and disunity in Nigeria.

The monarch’s calls were also restated by the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere.

The national publicity secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, urged Presidnet Buhari to create a balance in the polity and treat all ethnic groups fairly..

He stated: “I think it is a timely worry from the Sultan, and it resonates with complaints about appointments and allocation of resources.

“This is a multi-ethnic country; but when we begin to treat other sections of the country as if they do not matter or exist, it is not healthy for the unity of the country.

“The President must watch out for such and create a balance. He cannot count chief executive officers as one from a section of the country and count a messenger as one for another section of the country and now say he has appointed one from each section of the country.

“He must ensure there is balance, because there are qualified people for all positions in the land.”

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that the presidency released a full list of all the appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari since he assumed office on May 29, 2015.

Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on Media and Publicity released the list on Saturday night, November 4.

The presidency released the list in reaction to a newspaper publication in which northerners are alleged to have dominated President Buhari's appointments.

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