Following the release of the ministerial list for the second phase of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, Kwara North Rights and Interest Group (KnRIG) has commended President Buhari for considering ceding 2 ministerial slot to Kwara State.
However, the pressure group in a press statement jointly signed by the chairman and secretary of the group, Cmr. Kolo M. Jerry and Cmr. Jibril Seko have described president’s Muhammadu Buhari’s inability to cede one of the two ministerial slots alloted to kwara state to the region as saddening, claiming that Kwara North deserve one from amongst the two slot considering the level of infrastructural deficit obtainable and developmental gaps suffered by the region as a result of an age long negligence.
“We as a Right and Interest group wish to commend President Muhammadu Buhari for his magnanimity at Considering to ceding 2 ministerial slots to kwara state. He has done too well for making it so.
Nonetheless
We are taking aback to discover that, of the 2 slot ceded, the North of kwara is exclusive of the equation. It came to us as a surprise, considering the level of infrastructural deficit obtainable and developmental gaps suffered by the region as a result of an age long neglect. We were very hopeful demanding for 2 ministerial slot to kwara and ONE specifically to the North that never came to be.
For us at KnRIG, we are saddened by this development and won’t fake to pretend about it. We deserve ONE from amongst of us to be a nominee. Our thoughts on this is that, President Buhari isn’t briefed enough to know of the dilemma and predicament the people of the North of kwara are faced and passing through.
If we do, and can have our way as we speak, to reverse any of the nominees name, so to accommodate one from among of us. We had gladly done.
Much as we do appreciate Mr President for the 2 ministerial slots, we have a very strong reservation about the exclusion of nominee from our extraction. While also not oblivious to the fact that, Mr President reserve the right to pick and from anywhere his ministers. Equity is it that we ask.”