Comrade Ibn Yakassai, Secretary of AYR, has castigated Acting President Yemi Osinbajo over the sudden change and removal of Aliyu Dikko Abdulrahman with the replacement of Funsho Doherty from the South-West as the new Director General of the National Pension Commission (PENCOM), saying that his action does not follow due process. He opined that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander.
Yakassai said that Dikko is well qualified and well experienced than Funsho Doherty and wondered what must have made the Acting President to change a winning team to suit his geo-political region by undermining President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment in moving the nation forward.
That the removal of Dikko before his confirmation by the Senate abruptly ended the wild celebration and jubilation across the North which is tantamount to a travesty of Justice on the region and call for an all-inclusive progressives and the Northern elders to rise up to the occasion.
The Secretary emphasized that on behalf of the teeming northern youths of Nigeria and the Diaspora, condemns the unprofessional removal of Dikko Abdulrahman as biased and capable of undermining the good relationship that have existed between the North and South-West and called on the Acting President to reverse this ugly trend that does not portend well for our democracy and for the diverse geo-political region’s growth and integration. Emphasizing that this singular act of the Acting President is capable of sending a wrong signal to other geo-political regions that are not represented on the board irrespective of the Act defining the roles of the geo-political regions’ representation on the executive management.
He called on all the Northern elders, stakeholders and elites to be forewarned and states categorically, that the acting President should reverse to the statusquo or risk losing the support of the North in the discharge of his duties. As his body language has shown his dislike for the region that has contributed enormously to the growth, peace and stability of the country.
Nothing that the changes therein is un-Islamic and has no bases whatsoever and echoing that the north have celebrated joyously the appointment of their son on the mass media only to be rejected few days to the senate confirmation not minding the emotional torture, trauma and suffering, it has caused the region to train Alhaji Dikko.
We therefore, reject the appointment of Alhaji Aliyu Dikko Abdulrahman as Chairman, Bank of Industry (BOI) and aligned ourselves with the early appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari as the Director General of the National Pension Commission (PENCOM). That if the PRA 2014 could be brazenly trampled upon to remove and impose leadership on PENCOM, who says the provisions governing and protecting the funds’ assets cannot be discarded, to be forewarned is to be forearmed.”
