President Muhammadu Buhari
has again tried to allay fears that he harbours a bias against the south-east,
pointing out that he appointed four senior ministers from the zone where
he got only 198,000 votes in 2015.
Speaking
on Thursday at a dinner for chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
in Abuja, Buhari said he is fully aware of the issues confronting the
country.
Buhari
said: “There is something that hit me very hard and I am happy I hit it back at
somebody. Seven states of the north are only represented in my cabinet by
junior ministers, ministers of state.
“In
south-east, I got 198,000 votes but I have four substantive ministers and seven
junior ministers from there.
“You
are closer to the people than myself now that I have been locked up here, don’t
allow anybody to talk of ethnicity. It is not true.”
Buhari
scored 198,248 votes in the five south-east states while Jonathan got
2,464,906 in the 2015 presidential election.
He
said he enjoyed the supports of people of other ethnic groups and religious
affiliations while he was struggling to be president from 2003.
“There
is one thing that disabused my mind in a dispassionate way about ethnicity and
religion across the country. You know that tribunal for presidential election
started at court of appeal. The president was my classmate. I missed only four
of the court sittings,” he recalled.
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