Following the constant assumption that President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments have favoured the Northern part of the country than the others, the Presidency has come out to debunk such assumptions.
The development came just as Ogun, the home state of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, leads the remaining 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in appointments of Chief Executive Officers of federal agencies so far made by the Federal Government.
This information was disclosed in a graph made available to journalists on Saturday by the Presidency to fault a newspaper report that claimed that 81 out of 100 appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari were from the Northern part of the country.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, made the document available in Abuja. He also insisted that Buhari’s appointments so far were not lopsided in favour of the North as suggested by the media report.
The graph showed that on a scale of 0 to 25, Ogun State tops the list of states from where CEOs of federal agencies hail from with 21. Next to Ogun State on the graph are Imo and Kano States with 15 each.
Katsina, the home state of the President and Edo State share the third position with 14 each while they are followed by Anambra, Kogi and Kwara that have 13 each.
According to the document, 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 has 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. But the FCT has nothing recorded against it on the graph
