Board Appointments: You’re Making Belated Attempts To Curry Favour With The North, ADC Tells President Tinubu

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has described the board appointments announced by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday as a ‘desperate, cynical attempt to buy back the trust that he has spent over a year squandering, especially in Northern Nigeria’.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the party said this in a statement issued in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi on Saturday while also describing the appointments in question as ‘too little, too late’.

‘You cannot marginalize a region for over twenty-five months and expect applause because you suddenly remembered on the twenty-sixth month that Nigeria is bigger than Lagos State’ the statement noted while alleging that the president has begun to feel the heat hence his decision to pacify the north.

The party also described the board appointments announced on Friday as a frantic attempt to bandage the gaping wounds inflicted on Northern Nigeria as a result of ‘calculated neglect, presidential arrogance and unprecedented nepotism’. 

‘For over a year, this government turned a blind eye as bandits terrorised villages in the north, as our farmers abandoned their land, and as rural economies crumbled under the weight of poorly thought-out fuel subsidy removal.

Now, under the rising heat of public discontent, and with the emergence of a formidable opposition coalition gaining traction in the North and across the country, President Tinubu suddenly remembers that there are Nigerians to appoint to positions outside his Lagos.

Every major decision of this administration, from subsidy removal to a majority of the political appointments, have been taken without the North at the table. Now that the consequences of those decisions have become glaring, the President is doling out appointments as consolation prizes. But Northerners as co-owners of our great federal republic know better than to be deceived by these token appointments. They see through President Tinubu’s actions — and can sense that this is not genuine. Tokenism is not inclusion, and symbolism is not governance’ Mallam Bolaji Abdulahi said. 

The party has also urged the Tinubu administration to abandon what it described as ‘Bourdillon-style appeasement politics’ and embrace real national inclusion through consultation, policy equity, and sincere federal character. 

‘You cannot patch a broken roof with press releases and photo-ops. And you certainly cannot restore the trust that you have lost with the public by pretending that titles are a substitute for genuine commitment to nation-building’ he added-Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08035023079,  08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you