CAN EXPRESS DISAPPOINTMENT OVER PRESIDENT BUHARI’S APPOINTMENTS
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The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has voiced out its displeasure over what it identified as consistent discrimination against the Christians and southerners President Muhammadu’s administration.
In a statement released by its national president, Samson Ayokunle yesterday,the group made specific reference to the recent appointment of Yusuf Magaji Bichi as the new Director General of the Department of State Security DSS and the recent appointment of Zainab Ahmed as the acting Minister of Finance.
Ayokunle said,“CAN is disappointed with the justification of the illegalities being perpetrated by Buhari in the lopsided appointments by the Presidency including a handful Christians in his government who are doing so primarily to keep their jobs, at the expense of the majority. For anyone to be asking all well-meaning Nigerians, including some media houses, to stop complaining of the lopsided appointments in the security apparatus of the country is reprehensible, insensitive, and wicked.
“CAN notes with disappointments, shocks and surprises that despite our appeal to President Buhari to break the domination of the country’ security council by people of the same religion and language in a multi-religious and multi-ethnic groups that make up Nigeria, he still derives pleasure in turning a deaf ear to the Voice of Wisdom and Reason as manifested in the three appointments.
“He appointed Yusuf Magaji Bichi, a Muslim, from Kano state to replace Matthew Seiyefa, a Christian from Bayelsa who had been operating in an acting capacity since Lawal Daura was sacked in Buhari’s absence.
“Mr Abbas Umar Masanawa was also named the Managing Director of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC), just as Hajiya Zainab Ahmed was appointed the acting Finance Minister to replace Mrs Kemi Adeosun who resigned as a result of her failure to participate in the NYSC programme and for parading a forged NYSC Certificate of Exemption.”
He further reiterated that the Christian body is left to believe that the marginalization of the Christians in the President’s cabinet is deliberate and geared towards heightening the tension in the land for whatever reasons.
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