I Have Been Fair To The People Of The South East – Buhari

The insunuation that present All Progressive Congress (APC) government have been partial in its appointment to the South-East Region has been faulted by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The President insisted that he had been fair to the People of the South East in terms of appointment despite getting low votes from the region during the 2015 general elections.

The President made this known during an interview shown on Arise Television on Monday.

He said: “Somebody made an observation (and I made it clear for the first time) that I was not patronizing the Igbo from the south-east. I took the paper from him, I told him that when I won the election, I studied the amount of votes I got from all the geopolitical zones.

“I said I got 198,000 something from the whole of the south-east; 198, 000 which virtually any local government can give me. But I appointed ministers of foreign affairs, minister of labour, minister of industries and investment, minister of mines and tech.

“But these four, I never knew them from Adam. But from seven states of the north, I have ministers of states, they are under these ministers. How fair do you want me to be?

“So I threw him away with his paper.”