Buhari and his appointments

Following the announcement of the Presidential electoral results in April, many Nigerians sang praises of victory, trekking from one part of the country to another in extolment, throwing parties here and there and killing themselves in jubilation. Few weeks after the president’s inception into office, many were quite satisfied with his methodology of combating corruption, the reawakening of sleeping agencies/parastatals and the likes.
Now, many tongues seem to have gone sour due to the recent appointments of his Excellency; “Federal Character” they scream and I begin to ponder….
This federal character of a thing has been in existence all this while but where is the benefit? What landmark achievement have we obtained from federal character? In my humble opinion, federal character has done and is still doing more harm than good to this nation, a root cause of division and disunity.
Go to our nursery and primary schools and see how the pupils relate. They know no difference between ethnicity or religion, but as they grow up, society/parent tells them “this is where you belong to”, hence the beginning of the problem and we are busy offering lip service in proclaiming ‘One Nigeria’.
What is the primary assignment of these so called offices that we clamour for the even distribution of the officers to the six geo-political zones? Let’s say you own a business and want to employ six staff to run the business. You got ten applicants, four from the north, three from the east, and three from the west and this business has no location/language barrier. If you give these applicants a simple test and all four applicants from the north could barely express themselves unlike their counterparts from the east and west who performed exceptionally brilliant, who are you going to employ to run your business?
Let us be reminded that the fundamental reason for the existence of federal character is for carrying all citizens from every part of the country along in national issues which is why we have the national assembly, the summit of federal character, comprising of both the senate and house of reps which supposedly carries the voice of every Nigerian, but due to her laxity, many Nigerians fail to understand her significance.
What’s our interest as a nation? Results or adherence to ‘federal character’? if the easterners, westerners and southerners feel sidelined, let them wait for the cat to jump out of the bag before firing their arsenal. As far as I’m concerned, we are only showcasing our level of disunity. Where is that solidarity? Where is that unity? If we were to be Americans, Obama would not even dream of serving the nation.
This government is for four years and after that, we have the choice to decide if they are to continue the race or hand over the baton. Even before their tenure elapses, there’s always room for impeachment should we find any fault backed with concrete evidence.
Some persons prefer reading in the library, others prefer their rooms, some their offices, others under a tree. We all have different tastes and our environment sometimes determine the level of our productivity. We should allow Mr President choose whatever environment suits him to work in inasmuch as he delivers the goods. If we are having issues with his appointments, let it not be based on federal character. God bless Nigeria.