Appointments: Ndume makes case for South East, Commends Tinubu
By Tunde Opalana
The Senator representing Borno North senatorial district, Senator Ali Ndume commended President Bola Tinubu over recent appointments into boards of key Federal agencies, particularly from the northern region.
Latest on the appointment was that of Mohammed, son of former military president, Gen Ibrahim Babangida who was appointed chairman of the Bank of Agriculture.
Others appointments made from the northern part of the country were, Lydia Kalat Musa, Chairperson of the Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority; Jamilu Wada Aliyu, chairman of the National Educational Research and Development Council; Yahuza Ado Inuwa, to chair the Standards Organisation of Nigeria and
Sanusi Musa (SAN) named chairman of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution.
President Tinubu also appointed Professor Al-Mustapha Aliyu as Director-General of the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa ; Sanusi Garba Rikiji as Director-General of the Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations and Abdulmumini Aminu-Zaria as new Executive Director of the Integrated Water Resources Management Commission.
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However the former Senate Leader passionate appealed to Tinubu to spread the tentacles of his appointment to the South East geopolitical zone.
Ndume in a personally signed statement said: ” this appointments and the one he did last May when he gave 12 key agencies to competent individuals from the North were assuring enough. It goes to show that he is a responsive leader who listens to criticisms and surrender to genuine and legitimate agitation.
” These two appointments will reassure the North, particularly its elders that President Tinubu isn’t a leader that will deliberately promote an agenda to alienate the region which stood with him during the last general elections.”
He said “the wrong narrative that the south east has been abandoned and would not count in patronage distribution should not be allowed to fester for long.”
