{"id":144251,"date":"2024-12-29T23:02:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T22:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/appointments-two-wrongs-dont-make-right-el-rufai-reacts-to-tinubus-alleged-bias-for-yorubas"},"modified":"2024-12-30T00:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:11:17","slug":"appointments-two-wrongs-dont-make-right-el-rufai-reacts-to-tinubus-alleged-bias-for-yorubas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/appointments-two-wrongs-dont-make-right-el-rufai-reacts-to-tinubus-alleged-bias-for-yorubas","title":{"rendered":"Appointments: Two wrongs don\u2019t make right \u2013 El-Rufai reacts to Tinubu\u2019s alleged bias for Yorubas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has reacted to United States based Nigerian professor of journalism, Farooq Kperogi\u2019s allegations of ethnic favouritism in President Bola Tinubu\u2019s appointments<\/p>\n<p>Kperogi, in an article titled, \u2018Tinubu\u2019s Buharisation of the NNPC\u2019, accused the President Tinubu of appointing Yoruba people to key positions at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, an anonymous source claimed that a certain Bayo Ojulari is being proposed as Group Managing Director, GMD, of the NNPCL after the expiration of Mele Kyari\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<p>Kperogi also noted that he drew attention to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s lopsided appointments in favour of the North during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to Kperogi\u2019s article on X, El-Rufai said two wrongs do not make a right, referring to Buhari\u2019s bias for northerners in his appointments.<\/p>\n<p>The former Kaduna State governor, however, advocated for sensible inclusion over what he described as arrogant exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo wrongs do not make a right. Sensible inclusion always trumps arrogant exclusion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has reacted to United States based Nigerian professor of journalism, Farooq Kperogi\u2019s allegations of ethnic favouritism in President Bola Tinubu\u2019s appointments Kperogi, in an article titled, \u2018Tinubu\u2019s Buharisation of the NNPC\u2019, accused the President Tinubu of appointing Yoruba people to key positions at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":144250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1651,254,945],"class_list":["post-144251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-el-rufai-2","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Appointments: Two wrongs don\u2019t make right \u2013 El-Rufai reacts to Tinubu\u2019s alleged bias for Yorubas - 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