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Arewa Forum Tackles President Tinubu Over Appointment of Lagos Henchmen Into ‘key Positions’

The Arewa Economic Forum, AEF, a northern Nigeria group, has drawn the attention of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to what it termed “Yorubanisation” and “Lagoslisation” of his appointments.

According to the socio-cultural pressure group, most of the persons President Tinubu has appointed into key sectors of the country are from the South-West region and Lagos State particularly.

The Chairman of the Forum, Alhaji Ibrahim Shehu Dandakata, expressed displeasure over the fact that the North, which significantly contributed to the enthronement of the Tinubu government, is being left out in the Finance and ICT sectors which he said are crucial to economic development.

He added that both the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, and the Acting Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Folashodun Shonubi, are from the southwest.

Dandakata spoke in Abuja today at a press conference organized by the Forum to register its discontent over the seeming nepotism in some of the President’s appointments

VOP Lagos

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