Balance Your Political Appointments, Yoruba Group Tells Buhari

 

Cross section of OPU leaders

A Yoruba group, Oodua Progressive Union (OPU) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to balance the political appointments in the interest of peace and the unity of Nigeria.

OPU stated this in a communique issued at the 2nd Oodua Progressive Union Europe summit held at Frankermaheerd, Amstredam, Holland.

The group admonished the president to implement the report of the National Conference stressing that is the only way to move Nigeria as a country forward “based on the structural imbalances that affect progress which brings suspicious and lack of trust within various ethnic groups in Nigeria so that every state can develop at their own through true federalism.”

OPU further advised the Federal Govt to lay more emphasis on the security of life and properties of the citizens and foreign national living in Nigeria “because there are recent report that over twenty states is not safe to travel to by the United States, Britain and some European union countries such report is not good for the image of the tourism sector of the country especially when many countries are looking beyond mineral resources to tourism as source of income.”
Commenting on the selection of a new Ooni of Ife, the group said Yorubas, irrespective of religion should pray for the selection of the Ooni. It said whoever emerge as king should be “someone who was crowned from heaven in the interest of progress and peace of Yoruba land and Nigeria.”
 OPU advise the southwest governors to establish council of Obas of Yoruba land that will be rotated in every state that is the only way Yoruba can achieve the lost unity within Yoruba people.
Recently, former Lagos state military administrator, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), has hailed the recent appointments of the president.