Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Felix Morka, has insisted that President Bola Tinubu has been fair to northerners regarding appointments into key offices in his government.
Morka, who featured on Channels Television flagship programme, Politics Today, said “President Tinubu is trying to be fair… We have some fairness in the key offices, dousing a growing allegation of nepotism against the former Lagos governor by some northern political heavyweights.
The APC spokesman maintained that it is too early for the detractors of the ruling party to raise disapproving eyebrows against the President’s appointments.
“And this is a government that has just done one year in office, that has yet to even exhaust all of the opportunities for people to be invited to serve in this government. There are so many offices that are yet to be filled. There is more to come,” he said.
“We have the President, we have the Vice President. We have the defence, we have the finance. The defence is mostly staffed by people from the northern side while the minister of finance and the CBN governor are from the southern side.
“It’s always premature to make that assessment. Hold your breath till a lot of the key positions are filled.
“For those who want to make an issue of ethnicity, the President has the country as his constituency. The President is not the President of the South-West, or the North or the South; he is the President of Nigeria and every part of this country deserves to be effectively represented, consistent with the Federal Character flavour of our constitution.”
On allegations by Senator Ali Ndume from Borno South, that Tinubu has been shielded from party members, Morka said APC internal mechanisms should be explored to deal with matters.
