I have just read on The Peoples' Voice (Sahara Reporters) that indeed Lamido Sanusi has been nominated to be the next Governor of Nigeria's apex bank. Kudos to him for being considered worthy of that high honour. I remember reading also the numerous concerns raised by Nigerians as to the propriety, nay, fairness of appointing yet another Nigerian of northern extraction to head yet another arm of the country's finance department.
With all due respect, the President reserves the right to appoint whom he sees fit and no doubt Mr Sanusi, judging by his antecedents, would be qualified to man the post of CBN Governor. I personally subscribe to the view that let the best man get the job irrespective of his ethnic origins.
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However, there is another side to the matter which is what I think Mr President is failing to see. The two other managers of Nigeria’s finance in the public sector, Minister of Finance, Dr. Mansur Mukhtar, and the Minister of National Planning, Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman, are from the North. It smirks of outright insensitivity, to say the least. While the President cannot please everybody, it appears a little too coincidental that ,Sanusi another northerner, will head the CBN. Nigeria has always been a federal state and that character should and ought to be reflected as much as possible.
Here in the UK, there is positive discrimination. For instance, employers make an effort attempt to employ black, Asian and people of other origins even there are qualified white people, to maintain a balanced community focused image. It allows those employers exploit the abundant resources available in those communities as well as giving them a more representative and diversified work force. Nigeria could borrow a leaf.
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