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The Presidency has issued a public apology over errors in the recent list of President Bola Tinubu’s appointments, released in an attempt to counter accusations of lopsided appointments favoring his home region.
The list, which had sparked backlash across social media, showed an overrepresentation of appointees from Tinubu’s South West region, fueling criticism from opposition figures. Senator Ali Ndume, an APC lawmaker from Borno South, called out the President for breaching the federal character principle—a rule meant to ensure fairness in representation across Nigeria’s diverse regions.
“As a lawmaker, it’s my duty to criticize the President when necessary—even if we’re from the same party,” Ndume remarked in an interview with Arise Television, highlighting what he perceived as an imbalance in the appointments.
To defend himself, the President’s team released a breakdown of the appointments by geopolitical zone, but that only triggered more questions when Femi Gbajabiamila, the President’s Chief of Staff, was missing from the list—raising further concerns about the underrepresentation of the South East in Tinubu’s cabinet.
In response to the growing controversy, Sunday Dare, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication, issued an apology on social media, admitting the errors in the list:
“We have noticed a number of errors in the list of appointments tweeted. We are sorry. We will provide an updated list later. Thank you,” Dare wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
However, Dare did not clarify why Gbajabiamila was excluded from the list, leaving some critics to wonder if the omissions were more than just simple mistakes.
