HURIWA Civil rights advocacy group: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not different from Sunday Igboho, the ethic leader of Yoruba nation in the president’s tribalised, nepotistic and ethincised pattern of picking on only Yorubas for appointments into strategic national economic team of his administration.HURIWA recalled that British Broadcasting Corporation online medium identified Mr. Sunday Igboho as follows: “The Nigerian separatist who wants a Yoruba nation. He is leading agitations for breakaway states in Nigeria are nothing new and a controversial car salesman has emerged as the latest figure calling for a Yoruba nation in the country’s south-west.Besides, BBC says, Sunday Igboho who is hailed as a hero by his supporters, Sunday “Igboho” Adeyemo is seen as a dangerous rabble rouser by his opponents, accused of inciting ethnic hatred and stockpiling illegal weapons. Mr Adeyemo first achieved some national notoriety last October when he used the country’s Independence Day to call for the creation of an independent Yoruba republic, although he was widely ridiculed for the idea at the time. He is being taken more seriously now, as he has become a lightning rod for grievances related to land rights.HURIWA said the continuous insistence by President Tinubu to appoint only his Yoruba South West kinsmen and women to head the most important economic affiliated national offices, has raised mitual suspicions of a hidden YORUBA AGENDA in the near future just as the Rights group has called on all right thinking Nigerians to mount pressure publicly on the president to behave like a statesman and give equal treatment to all ethnic groups in the appointments he makes into key economic spheres.HURIWA lamented that even as recent as 24 hours ago, Tinubu replaced the retiring Yoruba born Accountant General of the Federation with another Yoruba person as acting Accountant General of the Federation thus continuing with the Yorubanisation of his core mandate holders in his administration just as he gives fringe positions to persons from the Igbo speaking South East of Nigeria in what represents clear discrimination against certain ethnic groups in the Country. HURIWA said the lack of inclusivity has made a lot of Nigerians to draw a parallel between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the leader of the Yoruba nation’s secessionist group: Sunday Igboho. HURIWA listed the key economic appointees of Tinubu’s administration as follows: the minister of finance and economic planningWale Edun of Lagos State whoAssumed office 21 August 2023.Central bank governorGovernor Olayemi CardosoOn 15 September 2023, Bola Tinubu appointed Cardoso to serve as the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, for a term of five years pending his confirmation by the Nigerian Senate. On 23 September 2023, Cardoso was officially confirmed as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.Chairman commission on tax reformsMr Taiwo OyedeleOn the 7th july, 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had appointed Taiwo Oyedele as the Chairman of the lavishly funded Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms.Others are the new accountant general of the federation Mr Shamseldeen Babatunde OgunjimiOn December 10, 2024, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Mr Shamseldeen Babatunde Ogunjimi The Minister of industry Olajumoke Omoniyi OduwoleAssumed office 4 November 2024President Bola TinubuPreceded by Doris Uzoka-AniteThe Minister of interiorOlubunmi Tunji-OjoAssumed office 21 August 2023President Bola TinubuPreceded by Rauf Aregbesola.Custom chairmanPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu has on Monday 19 June 2023 appointed DCG Adewale Bashir Adeniyi as the new Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria CustomsMinister of Marine and Blue EconomyOn 2nd august, 2023, Adegboyega Oyetola was appointed by President Bola Tinubu. He is an alleged cousin brother of the president.Specifically, section 42.-(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 privides that: “A citizen of Nigeria of a particular community, ethnic group, place of origin, sex, religion or political opinion shall not, by reason only that he is such a person -(a) be subjected either expressly by, or in the practical application of, any law in force in Nigeria or any executive or administrative action of the government, to disabilities or restrictions to which citizen of Nigeria of other communities, ethnic groups places of origin, sex, religions or political opinions are not made subject; or(b) be accorded either expressly by, or in the practical / application of, any law in force in Nigeria or any such executive or administrative action, any privilege or advantage that is not accorded to citizen Nigeria of other communities, ethnic groups, places of origin, sex, religions or political opinions.(2) No citizen of Nigeria shall be subjected to any disability or deprivation merely by reason of the circumstances of his birth.HURIWA accused president Tinubu of also abusing and violating the constitutional federal character principles by making his entire key economic team members an exclusively YORUBA PEOPLE’S CLUB.
*Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, National Coordinator, HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA). December 11th 2024.
