Adagbo Onoja
Nothing would justify lopsided appointments in favour of any ethnic, religious, regional, class, generational or gender group but it is also worth pondering whether Buhari is confronting the problem with the practice of the presidential system in plural societies, particularly in the case of Nigeria where no ethno-regional group is strong enough to go it alone. The point about this piece is that there are lessons to draw from problematising phenomena such as the trajectory of appointments under Buhari’s second coming so far and the way it connects with similar exercises in the past. But we tend to drive away such lessons by cheaply invoking the ethno-regional frame of analysis and losing such lessons vis-à-vis the corrective measures. Yet, it yields more interesting posers to ponder if one puts some of these developments under some different analytical gaze.
It was a sharp contrast to OBJ who appointed his tight friends and dedicated loyalists to key positions although, in his case, those appointees were so dispersed that people didn’t take note of that fact.
