Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has defended President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent appointments, which has sparked controversy in the country, saying that those appointed were based on merit and not ethnicity.
Oshiomhole made this remark in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Peter Okhiria, while commending the President on the appointments of the Chief of Staff, Secretary to the Government of the Federation and others.
According to Oshiomhole, “The Nigerian nation has come to a point where we have to use the best hands to confront the peculiarity of our problems. It is not all the time we descend to the level of geopolitical balancing; we need to employ unusual methods to solve an unusual problem. The level of decay in the country at present requires very seasoned hands and incorruptible Nigerians that will help translate the APC agenda of change for the benefit of all Nigerians.
“We must not reduce governance to political patronage of bread and butter. The governor congratulates the Chief of Staff, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Comptroller General of Customs, all of who he had very close relationship with and whose credentials stand tall among their compeers. He wishes them well in their new jobs of helping to sanitize a system that has become so rotten and corrupt as a result of manifest incompetence and mismanagement.”
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