Nothing would change if Buhari makes all appointments from one village – Soludo

A former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has declared that even if the government of President Muhammadu Buhari makes all political appointments from one village, that would not turn around the situation of an average person in that village.

This was as he pointed out that despite the number of years that the North has controlled political power in the country, “poverty is still predominantly a northern phenomenon.”

Addressing some people from the South-East, he said, “Even if any government, including this one, have all the political appointments from one village, my thesis is that the live of the average person in that village will not change.

“Just rewind it and think the other way; the last regime, we had an Ebele Azikiwe as president, we had secretary to government, we had minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, we had deputy senate president and so on and so forth. Most of the financial institutions headed by people from the South East and yet there is no motorable federal highway in Igboland. 

“This thing is an elite game as far as I am concerned and it is not taking us anywhere. If you take it broadly; the North today, I mean if you calculate the number of years they were in power, but poverty is still predominantly a northern phenomenon. So, that you control this, and a few billionaires are made here and there means absolutely nothing. The ordinary man in Nigeria has not benefited and is worse off by the current system that we have.”

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