Against the backdrop of his famous inaugural speech in 2015, among other insinuations President Muhammadu Buhari’s critics make a list of his pro-north actions and pronouncements
Punch Newspaper in a fresh report list the following as some of the President's actions and utterances that really suggests he is NEPOTISTIC
- The President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, said at the ongoing annual meeting of the bank in Washington, D.C., that Buhari “specifically” asked the World Bank to “shift focus to the northern region of Nigeria.”
- Also, while in the United Kingdom for treatment in June, 2017, the President sent his Eid-el-Fitr (recorded audio) message to Nigerians in Hausa.
- In 2016, after appointing heads of the various security agencies in the country, 14 out of the 17 security agencies were headed by northerners, most of whom he appointed.
- On July 22, 2015, the President said at the United States Institute of Peace that people (North – based on election results) who gave him 97 per cent of votes “cannot in all honesty” be treated same way with those who gave him five per cent.
- On June 2, 2013, the President, who was then a candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, said in Kaduna on a Liberty Radio programme, Guest of the Week, that the Federal Government should stop killing Boko Haram members, as Niger Delta militants were not killed in a similar manner.
- On October 13, 2000, Buhari led truckloads of Northerners to the then Governor of Oyo State, Lam Adesina, over the killing of Fulanis in Saki, even when the herdsmen had also killed several persons in the area.
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