Less than two years to the expiration of his first term in office as president, Muhammadu Buhari has made just 4 appointments from Oyo State despite being the state that defeated the Peoples Democratic Democratic Party, PDP with the highest margin in the South West.
In the 2015 presidential election, Buhari’s All Progressives Congress, APC, defeated PDP with a margin of 225, 244 having polled 528,620 against PDP’s 303,376 in the state.
The results in other South West state, as researched into by insideoyo.com are APC’s120,331 against PDP’s176,466 in Ekiti; 308,290 against 207,950 in Ogun; 383,603 against 249,929 in Osun; 299,889 against 251,368 in Ondo and 792,460 against 632,327 in Lagos respectively
According to the list of 157 appointees released by presidency and made available to journalists by its pokesperson, Mr. Femi Adesina, on Saturday night, Buhari has made more appointments from the South-East than the South-South and North-Central since he assumed office,
While the South-East has 22, the North-Central has 21 and the South-South has 20, according to geo-political zoning.
The South-West has 40 appointees, followed by the North-West’s 30 and North-East’s 24.
In all, there are 75 northerners and 82 southerners on the list.
These statistics appear to contradict popular beliefs that Buhari has favoured the north or marginalised the south-east in his appointments.
Ogun state has the highest with 21, while Imo and Kano follow with 15 each, while Edo and Katsina each has 14.
Kaduna has 12, Adamawa and Bauchi have 11 each while Borno and Lagos have 10 each.
Benue, Delta, Niger and Osun states have nine each; Gombe and Jigawa have eight each; Rivers seven while Bayelsa and Ondo have six each. Cross River, Nasarawa, Plateau, Taraba and Yobe have five each; Enugu, Ekiti, Akwa Ibom, Oyo, Sokoto and Zamfara have four each; Kebbi has three; while Ebonyi and Abia states have two each.
The FCT has nothing recorded against it on the graph
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