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The presidentiality on Tuesday issued a sharp rebuttal to the Senator Ali Ndume from Borno South on his public accusations that the political appointment of President Tinubu President had violated the principle of federal character.

His attack followed Ndume’s statement during his appearance on Arise TV, where he claimed that the president’s choice did not have a fair regional representative.

Ndume, a former leader of the majority of the Senate, warned that failing to fix such imbalances could have broad consequences. “What I said was to ask for the attention of Mr. President for such violations so that it could be corrected; if not, you know, these things can backfire in a certain period,” he said.

Responding to the accusation, Bayo Onanuga, a special advisor to the President of Information and Strategy, described Ndu’s comments as a hypocrite and lacking in objectivity.

Onanuga showed that it was contrary to the ndume claim, Borno State had benefited significantly from the recent high profile appointment, including two people from the Nduume Senator District which was appointed for important positions in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC).

He questioned the credibility of ndume in increasing concerns about ethnic favoritism, stating, “If Tinubu’s choice is so tribal, how do the two ndume kinsmen achieve the top NNPC role?”

Onanuga goes further to describe the criticism of the senator as a pattern of “pursuit of the canopy” and rhetoric that divides rather than facts or constructive opposition. He emphasized that President Tinubu remained committed to inclusiveness, stating that all promises were guided by achievement, integrity, national distribution, and service capacity, not ethnic considerations.

The controversy also took a reaction from other parliamentary members, including Senator Sunday Karimi from Kogi West, who condemned NDume’s television criticism. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Karimi advised his colleague to divert his focus to resolve urgent security problems in his area rather than involved in public attacks on administration.

“Instead of playing in the gallery, Senator Ndume must return to his constituencies and collaborate with its people to deliver the ongoing Boko Haram rebellion,” Karimi said. He criticized the statement of the senator as a distracting from a more urgent national challenge, especially insecurity in the northeast.

Karimi, who represented an area that was also disturbed by violence, shared her own experience with a sense of insecurity, noting the loss of a young army captain from her new district was killed while serving in Borno.

“This country has lost too many troops and trillions of Naira who fight the rebels at Borno South. That is an urgent problem that we must talk about,” he concluded.

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