Former governorship candidate of Alliance for Democracy (AD) in Lagos State, Chief Owolabi Salis, has tasked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the need to ensure fairness and equity in his appointments, pointing out that appointments ordinarily should be an avenue to engineering national unity and cohesion.
Salis, who is also a New York-based lawyer and chartered accountant, gave the charge in a statement issued from his United States of America base, against the backdrop of criticisms trailing the choice of the President into key positions, warning that division was not an option for the new administration in view of current challenges facing her.
According to Salis, who is also an expert in diversity management, President Tinubu should take this step considering the division which polarized the country along religious and ethnic lines during the recent general elections.
He argued that Tinubu and his party, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) could have done better, going by the repertoire of experiences, adding that one would have expected that anything that could further divide Nigerians would have been avoided from day one.
“As a diversity expert and somebody with a deep knowledge of Nigerian politics, one would have expected that anything that could further divide our people would have been avoided from day one.
“For a character like Tinubu and his party, the APC, they could have done better, going by the repertoire of experiences.
“Moreover, Yorubas are for equity. Yorubas are known to harmonise diverse interests and bring everyone together, that’s Yoruba spirituality.
“The truth is that despite our differences, we are one and the same as far as the Nigerian project is concerned.
“Appointments into offices therefore should reflect our diversity as it remains a potent tool that can either make our journey towards nationhood.
“This is why I am particularly concerned about issues so far raised against appointments into offices, especially our financial architecture under the current administration,” he stated.
“Former President Obasanjo did excellently well in this regard with appointments of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Prof. Charles Soludo, Nuru Ribadu, Nasir El-Rufai, Nenadi Usman, Dr. Kpakol across the country.
“The truth is that good diversity management engenders national unity and luckily Nigeria parades quality people from every geo-political zone of the country, hence any good leader should be able to harness such for national development,” he added.
Chief Salis, however, said President Tinubu still has the opportunity to right the perceived wrongs “to redeem his image before his critics, who are no doubt right by insisting that the right thing be done.”
“No doubt, one of the things that worked for him in the last elections is his perceived pan Nigeria posture, it is, therefore, incumbent upon him to prove his critics wrong and that he is president of all Nigerians and not of any ethnic stock,” he said.
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