As shown in a list of appointees released by the presidency, President Muhammadu Buhari has made more appointments from the south-east than the south-south and north-central since he assumed office on May 29, 2015.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, released the list of 159 appointees on Saturday night.
“Here is an updated table of President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments, disproving the allegations of lopsidedness,” the presidential spokesperson said while forwarding the list to journalists.
In the list, Mr. Adesina identified (in red letters) appointees he said BusinessDay left out of a list of 100 it recently published.
“To claim, suggest or attempt to insinuate that the President’s appointments are tilted in favour of a section of the country is simply untrue and certainly uncharitable,” he said.
Mr. Adesina then provided a graphical illustration of different states and the number of top appointees from the respective states.
The graph shows that Ogun state has the highest number of appointments with 21, followed by Imo and Kano states with 15 each, and Edo and the president’s home state of Katsina with 14 each.
The Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has no appointee — the worst case; while Ebonyi and Abia have two each, Kebbi has three, while Zamfara, Sokoto, Oyo, Enugu, Ekiti and Akwa Ibom have four each.
In all, there are 75 northerners and 82 southerners on the list.
Below is a full list of appointments made by Mr. Buhari from the 36 states and FCT, as provided by the presidency.
