The Northern Nigeria Minorities Group (NNMG) has cautioned individuals and interest groups against ethnicising the appointment of Joash Amupitan as the new chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Convener of the group, Jacob Edi, issued the warning in a statement to PREMIUM TIMES, urging Nigerians to focus on competence and national unity rather than ethnic affiliations.
President Bola Tinubu nominated Mr Amupitan, a professor, as the new INEC chair last Thursday. He replaces Mahmood Yakubu, who bowed out of the commission two days earlier.
NNMG argued that, historically, no northern minority had questioned appointments made by previous leaders from the North, even when certain subregions dominated the position for over a decade.
“We have observed, with dismay, the spate of commentaries
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