Many Reasons President Muhammadu Buhari Is Seen As Ethnically Biased.

President Muhammadu Buhari has again shown his tribalistic and ethnic bigotry with the recent appointment of four Nigerians of Northern origin in the new appointments made yesterday in six Ministry of Information parastatals.

The list includes Mr Isaq Kawu (Director-General, Nigerian Broadcasting Commission-NBC), Mr Mansur Liman (Federal Radio Corporation Of Nigeria), Mr Yakubu Mohammed (Nigerian Television Authority), Dr Garba Abari (National Orientation Agency) which are all northerners, with the exception of Mr Bayo Onanuga ( News Agency of Nigeria) and Mr Osita Okechukwu (Voice of Nigeria) who are the only exception from the South.

While there is no denying that appointments should be made on merit rather than ethnicity, it is surprising to see that it seems only northern Nigerians are qualified for appointments in this regime. Also it is worthy of note that several regions had cried of marginalisation in the various regimes of President Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Goodluck EBELE Jonathan, but things only got to a new high under the present administration of President Buhari. 

Though the appointment  is not constitutionally wrong or flawed , the problem is that it is setting a bad precedent which might be abused by the next President who would succeed the president at the expiration of his tenure. There is need to thread carefully and realise that religion and ethnicity are not to be toyed with when it comes to politics in Nigeria. Nigerians are not yet enlightened, exposed or reached the heights of the likes of the USA and UK where these two variables play little or no role in politics . Since the history of the country and it's independence , ethnicity and religion have sown seeds of discord which is responsible for the first coup after independence by Major Kaduna Nzeogwu and the counter-coup by the Northerners. The history of Nigeria shows a total of 11 coups or attempted coups of which five were ethnically motivated (Nzeogwu, TY Danjuma and Northern Nigerian Counter coup, Dimka coup, Orkar and Ogboru Coup and Abacha's toppling of Shonekan's government ). 

With all these having happened in the past and having had a devastating effect on the country , it is surprising that President Buhari has decided to continue in that line going ahead to vindicate those who called him an ethnic begot  prior to his assumption of office . 

While the north might bring up arguments to support the new ethnically biased appointments , they should remember that nothing lasts forever as sooner a president of another region will take office. One good turn they say deserves another.