Ensure your appointments reflect merit, diversity, CAN, clerics advise Tinubu

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged President Bola Tinubu to make conscious efforts in stabilising his government by ensuring balance in the appointment of security chiefs and other top officials.

“Nigerians are looking forward to an administration that will address the injustices and unfairness of the past, and we hope that President Tinubu will use the opportunity of these appointments to allay the fears of Nigerians.”

ALSO, a network of over 2000 pastors and ministers has urged the President to emphasise merit and loyalty over ethnic and religious biases in appointments.

It stressed the need for all stakeholders to collaboratively address the leadership crisis facing the country, reminding Tinubu that leadership is not a position to be exploited for personal gains or power, but a responsibility to serve the people and the nation. 

Senior Pastor of World Royal City Church Asokoro, Abuja and president of Pastors Support Network, Dr. Effa Emmanuel, made the appeal, yesterday, ahead of a leadership conference holding this Saturday, June 10 and organised by Renaissance Bible College and Seminary, Abuja, in conjunction with Grand Renaissance Institute, Florida, United States.
 
He stated: “My charge to the President is for him to base his appointments on merit. Meritocracy is what has worked in different nations of the world and these are countries we look up to. Like U.S., UK, Malaysia and even Singapore, they pick people not based on their religious or ethnic inclination, but based on what they have achieved. I am appealing to the new President to choose his ministers, aides and people, who will lead the country alongside him, based on their achievements and what they are capable of doing.”