I Appointed People I Can Trust - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday defended his recent appointments in an interview with the BBC Radio Hausa Service.

Buhari has been widely criticized for the lopsided appointments which have largely favored the North.

However, he told the BBC that those he appointed had worked with him over the years in all circumstances and he had no doubt that they would produce the desired results.

“This is the nature of Nigerian politics. If they will do justice to me, as an elected Nigerian president, let them look at the Constitution a Nigerian president works with; there are people who will closely work with me that don’t need to be taken to the Senate. If I select people whom I know quite well in my political party, whom we came all the way right from the APP, CPC and APC,  and  have remained together in good or bad situation, the people I have confidence in and I can trust them with any post, will that amount to anything wrong?

"I have been with them throughout our trying times, what then is the reward of such dedication and suffering? They did not defect because of positions, they did not involve themselves in the pursuit of personal gains, and they accepted their fate throughout our trying moments. What is wrong if I make you the secretary (of the federal government) because I have confidence that things will go normal?”

So far, nobody from the South East has been appointed into Buhari's government.