Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has chided President Muhammadu Buhari over replacement of the sacked National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Director General, Ambassador Ayo Oke with Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, a northerner. “President Buhari has consistently demonstrated that he is an ethnic champion, a religious bigot and the number one promoter of disunity in Nigeria. This he has done again with the appointment of yet another northerner as the NIA Director General. This is unfair.” Fayose reminded Nigerians of his earlier warnings that President Buhari was operating as a president of the northern Nigeria only and the appointments made by him negated the principle of federal character. “Those politicians, who painted the picture of a changed President Buhari to Nigerians before the 2015 presidential election must have seen now that he (Buhari) can never change from an ethnic champion to a nationalist,” Fayose said.

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2018 04:41 UTC