Presidency Denies Marginalising Igbos, Says Buhari Is Not Sectional

The Presidency has denied claims that President Muhammadu Buhari has sidelined the South East region, especially concerning major appointments into his cabinet.

This comes amid allegations of neglect levelled against the Buhari administration by some Igbos, leading to agitations of secession by some groups in the region.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, however, said the Federal Government was committed to carrying every section of the country along in governance.

“One thing we must realise is that the President has a pan-Nigerian mandate,” Adesina said on Friday when he appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

“The way the country is structured, the way our constitution is, no president can emerge without winning a pan-Nigerian mandate; that was what the President wants.