{"id":81353,"date":"2021-05-30T23:24:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T22:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=81353"},"modified":"2021-05-30T23:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T22:24:39","slug":"presidential-appointment-accusation-of-nepotism-is-old-story-garba-shehu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/presidential-appointment-accusation-of-nepotism-is-old-story-garba-shehu\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Appointment: Accusation of nepotism is old story \u2014 Garba Shehu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1701219429176024606\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presidential spokesperson, Mr Garba Shehu has said today that the issue of favouritism and nepotism when appointing government officials is an old story, saying that Nigerians will always accuse every government that comes to power of nepotism.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nGarba Shehu was reacting to a question on true federalism during a live interview on Channels TV political Programme, Sunday Politics, where he noted that previous administrations were equally accused by Nigerians of nepotism noting that it is not new.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Quoting President Buhari\u2019s statement in 2019, Channels Seun Okinbaloye quoted Buhari as saying, \u201cTrue Federalism is the way to go.\u2019<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to Seun, Many Nigerians have accused President Buhari of neglect when he makes appointments and the issue of the national spread of national character is always raised and many have also said that that is part of what has been fueling agitation in the country, how difficult is it for the president to make an appointment from other parts he has been neglecting?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Reacting, however, the presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu said, \u201cLet me tell you, this is an old story, wasn\u2019t Obasanjo accused of it, didn\u2019t they accused late Umaru Yardua and Jonathan? look Nigerians will accuse every government that comes to power of nepotism. in fact so long as they were not appointed themselves as individuals, they will be crying ethnicity and religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Buhari is conscious of his responsibility to the constitution and the entire nation. when the numbers are published fully critics will be embarrassed to know that their states are the biggest beneficiaries of the appointment that the president has made so far,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrue federalism is on the way, constitution amendment is going on and the national assembly is keeping leadership on the matter, we will get there,\u201d Garba Shehu said.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential spokesperson, Mr Garba Shehu has said today that the issue of favouritism and nepotism when appointing government officials is an old story, saying that Nigerians will always accuse every&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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