Buhari’s appointments not lopsided – Presidency

By Kazzeem Ugbodaga

The presidency on Saturday rubbished claims that appointments made so far by President Muhammadu Buhari were lopsided in favour of the north.

The presidency reacted to a story published in Business Day on Sunday, 29th October, 2017, which said the appointments made by Buhari were clearly in favour of the north.

A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media  and Publicity said it “is either an ignorant effort or a mischievous attempt by the publication to mislead the public and portray the Buhari administration in bad light.

“Although the publication claims to be a fact-checking reportage, what it did essentially is roughly putting together a string of misleading statements across two pages of a newspaper. To push this biased reportage, which wrongly claimed that 81 of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 100 appointees…