A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has criticised President Bola Tinubu over allegation of lopsided appointments into the Presidential Census Committee.
Eze, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Thursday, expressed utmost dismay over the committee announced by the president, reportedly with only one section of the country dominating the committee’s membership for the highly sensitive national assignment.
The APC chieftain said, “It is sad and unacceptable that the President from day one of his inauguration on May 29, 2023, made his re-election bid in 2027 a centre-piece of his administration’s policy, thereby relegating genuine democratic governance to the backdrop.
“Now, to avoid being humiliated out of office in 2027, Mr President is doing everything humanly, politically and tribally possible to remain in power until 8 years.
“Of course, the best way to actualise his ambition is to garner the support of his kinsmen by fixing them in virtually all sensitive and revenue generating establishments in a multi-tribal nation like Nigeria, not minding whose ox is gored.
“As if nothing is wrong with Tinubu’s act of nepotism and tribal politics, he recently inaugurated the Census Committee populated mostly by the people of South West with no representation from North-East, South-South and of course South-East, that doesn’t even exist in his political and administrative calculation.
“It is sad and unfortunate that a President of a plural and diversified nation like Nigeria, in setting up such a sensitive Committee did not consider the federal character before his appointments,” Eze said.
Eze claimed that President Tinubu did not consider anyone from the North-East, South-South and South-East worthy to be member of such sensitive committee, wondering “how the dealings of such crafted and lopsided committee can do justice to this great nation.”
