Appointment of 17 northerners as heads of security agencies lopsided – Atiku

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has kicked against the appointment of heads of security agencies under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The PDP presidential candidate described the appointment of 17 Northerners as heads of various security agencies as lopsided.

Atiku stated this while speaking at an interactive session with members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors in Lagos on Wednesday.

He said, “PDP will form a government of national unity. We will bring members of the opposition who would have lost and then, of course, we will move on from there. This is when only the ways to unify this country and we will now begin to move.

“Today, we have 17 heads of various security agencies. All of them come from the North; I will not do that. I will make sure that every geopolitical zone is represented in these security outfits. This is also another way you can unify this country and give every part of this country a sense of belonging.

“By the time you double the strength of the Nigeria Police Force, maybe you will be talking about 700,000 or so. You will have reduced unemployment. So, we will extend that operation to the armed forces. By the time you finish doing that, you will find that you would have taken more than one million people out of the unemployment market.”