Facts, Spread of Appointments under Tinubu: Has the President been unfair to the North?

By Reno Omokri

In their attempts to use the Tax Reform Bill to divide Nigeria, some prominent influencers have been engaged to gaslight Mutanen Arewa into believing that President Tinubu has ‘Yorubanised’ the government.
That is not true. Elsewhere, I have written and presented facts that President Tinubu runs one of the most ethnically balanced governments since Nigeria returned to civil rule.
But my question to these inciters is why they were silent when President Buhari brazenly ran a sectional government. Under President Buhari, the President and head of the Executive, the Senate President and head of the Legislature, as well as the Chief Justice of Nigeria and head of the Judiciary, were all Northern Muslim males.
Additionally, under General Buhari, the heads of the following sensitive organisations were also simultaneously Northern Muslim males:
AGF
AMCON
Accountant General of the Federation
Airforce
Army
DIA
DMI
DSS
EFCC
FRSC
NCC
NHIS
NIS
NNPC
NPA
NPS
NSA
NTA
NUC
PTDF
Police
UBEC

AMONGST MANY OTHERS:
President Tinubu is an astute politician. The President secured 2,652,824 votes from the Northwest, which is more than a hundred thousand votes more than the 2,542,979 he got from the Southwest.
President Tinubu won the #NigerianElections2023 in the North-central and Northwest. He only lost to Waziri Atiku in the Northeast.
There is no way a person as politically astute and aware as President Tinubu will be mindful of these facts and deliberately cheat Northern Nigeria. And he has not.
The two largest revenue-generating agencies of the Federal Government, the NNPC and NPA, are headed by Northerners under President Tinubu.
The head of the Nigerian Armed Forces and the most senior uniformed military officer in Nigeria is the Chief of Defence Staff, and under Tinubu, he is a Northerner.
There are twenty Military, Security, Police and Law Enforcement agencies in Nigeria. And twenty-one men head these agencies. Out of that twenty-one, only five bodies are headed by the Southwest. The bulk of that number rightfully goes to the Northwest, and that geopolitical zone also occupies the choicest portions.

PLEASE FIND BELOW A BREAKDOWN OF THESE OFFICES
Minister of Defence: Mohammed Abubakar NW
Minister of State for Defence: Bello Matawalle NW
National Security Adviser: Nuhu Ribadu NE
Chief of Army Staff: Major General Olufemi Olatubosun SW
Chief of Air Staff: Air Marshal Hasan Bala Abubakar NW
Chief of Naval Staff: Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla SE
Inspector General of Police: Kayode Egbetokun SW
Director General of the DSS: Adeola Ajayi SW
Director General of the NIA: Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed NC
Chief of Defence Intelligence: Major General Emmanuel Undiandeye SS
Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service: Kemi Nandap NC (by marriage)
Comptroller-General of Customs: Bashir Adewale Adeniyi SW
Controller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service: Haliru Nababa NW
Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency: Mohammed Buba Marwa NE
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission: Olanipekun Olukayode SW
Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission: Shehu Usman Mohammed NW
Commandant General Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps: Dr. Ahmed Abubakar Audi NC
Chairman Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission: Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu NW
CEO Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit: Hajiya Hafsat Bakari NE
Controller General of the Federal Fire Service: Engr. Jaji O. Abdulganiyu NC
Director-General National Youth Service Corps: Brig Gen YD Ahmed NW
From the list above, the Northwest of Nigeria has the lion’s share of leadership positions in the security sector with seven slots, keeping with their status as Nigeria’s most populated geopolitical region. They are followed by the Southwest, which, according to the National Population Commission, is Nigeria’s second most populous zone. The North-central comes next.
Patriotic and objective Nigerians can see that the list represents the fairest and most balanced security architecture leadership in Nigeria’s history ever, even as the Southeast, which did not have a seat in the joint chiefs of staff for eight years of the Buhari administration, now has one.