Appointments: Buhari Correcting 15-Year Marginalization Of The North – Birmah

President Muhammadu Buhari-official-portrait

A former Minister of Education, Alhaji Dauda Birmah has justified President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent appointments alleging that the north had suffered marginalisation in federal appointments under previous administrations.

According to him, “during the 15 years preceding him, the north had been wailing and crying because the area was totally marginalized. Buhari is trying to rectify that marginalization of the north but I am not surprised that some people are complaining,” he told Vanguard in an interview.

“But 100 days are not enough time to judge and I believe when we go forward and the total picture is zeroed down, I think corrections are going to be effected and people will be satisfied that everybody has been taken into consideration.”

Birmah, who was at a time a presidential aspirant under the defunct ANPP but later joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) where he said he was ignored also said it was important to probe the past government.

“It is absolutely necessary to probe the previous government although I do not believe that probing and things like should be the essence of government. But right now, government is moving and there is greater sanity in governance. Do you believe now that we can have the type of electricity we have now if the government has not been doing anything?”

He also expressed support for President Buhari’s style of governance. “Buhari has come on a change agenda and he is not expected to behave in a manner in which you will see things as business as usual.

“He has to change things and he has to fulfill his promise of change to people and he is trying to understand the place and put fundamental changes in place because if you put a very heavy structure on a faulty infrastructure, the building will collapse.

“So, I commend Buhari for what he is doing and I believe he is doing well and he is going to succeed.”

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