Jonathan, Yoruba leaders may be on warpath over UBEC seat

President Goodluck Jonathan appears set to incur the wrath of the South West if he does not move quickly to stop the ugly trend going on at the national headquarters of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), which has seen Dr Samshudeen Dikko taking over substantive head as against Professor Rasheed Aderinoye, appointed by him.

Nigerian Tribune learnt that some powerful interest groups had moved, taking the advantage of the absence of the president from the country to replace his choice, Aderinoye, from the South West, with Dikko, who hails from North-West part of the country.

Aderinoye, it was further learnt, had been Acting Executive Secretary of UBEC before the sudden twist, with reports alleging that some interest groups had moved round, using influence to ensure that the president’s nod for Aderinoye to take over at the commission as part of the move to assuage the feeling of the South-West people over lopsidedness in appointments at the Federal level did not sail through.

Leaders of South West had, some months ago, met President Jonathan to lay complaints that the zone was being marginalised in federal appointments despite the fact that he got the bulk of his vote from there, while he had assured that he would do everything to right the wrong.