President Bola Tinubu has been accused of prejudice by the civil rights organisation Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), which claims that members of his ethnic group received the majority of the “key appointments” in his cabinet.
The group said that the nomination of a new governor of the central bank and chairman of the federal inland revenue service is a testimonial in a statement released by its national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, on Monday.
The group said, “With President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent approval of the nomination of Olayemi Cardoso to serve as the substantive new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), some 48 hours after appointing Zachaeus Adedeji as the acting chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, the strong perception that the President is pushing an unseemly pro-ethnic agenda became worryingly stronger, Adedeji is to ‘serve in an acting capacity for 90 days before his subsequent confirmation’ as the substantive chairman of FIRS for a term of four years in the first instance.
