Odigie-Oyegun said this against the backdrop of the uproar generated by recent appointments announced by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The party chairman said this while receiving a delegation from MBO Dynamic Support Group, led by its national coordinator, Usman Ibrahim, who paid him a courtesy visit at the party’s national secretariat.
The party chairman used the opportunity to assure the group and Nigerians that knowing “the kind of a person President Muhammadu Buhari is, he remains confident that he will balance federal appointments across all the geopolitical zones.”
He said appointments so far made by the President were mostly those of his personal staff, adding that the furore over the alleged lopsidedness of these appointments was uncalled for.
Odigie-Oyegun said, “So, one must make that clear at this stage. Nobody, no leader can neglect any part of this nation, that will not happen.
“There have been a lot of unfortunate misinformation and uproar against appointments at this stage. We have two set of appointments that have been taking place. One set are the personal privilege of Mr. President, as far as his personal staff are concern. The other set has to do with a few important and strategic persons that are going to help him either in the fight against corruption or the fight against insurgency in the North-East, but this is not where to play the political balancing game.
“The President has the right to appoint those he has confidence in because these are the areas where he has made promises to Nigerians.
“But we have thousands of political appointments and he has just made a few appointments while thousands are still waiting. The balancing must happen when the political appointment are being made but we must not at this particular point in time with the few appointments say that one must be from the North, one must be from South or from the east not at this very stage.”
He appealed to Nigerians not to lose sight of the fact that those who were hell-bent on drawing Nigeria back from the path of progress will stop at nothing to discredit the Buhari-led APC administration.
Commenting on the anti-graft war embarked upon by the administration Odigie-Oyegun said, “If a particular group has ruled for 16 years, then who is guilty of corruption?
“And all the fight, and allegation of witch-hunt are neither here nor there. What is important is that anybody who has a skeleton in his cupboard is the one that has something to fear, if you do not have any skeleton in your cupboard you go to sleep and sleep very soundly.”
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