Customs recruitment: Tinubu Emeritus Professor of nepotism, northerners feel hated, profiled – Mahdi Shehu
Political activist Mahdi Shehu has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Comptroller-General of Customs of promoting nepotism and regional bias in the newly released 2025 Customs Cadet Officers shortlist.
In a post shared on X on Saturday, Shehu alleged that the recruitment list shows a clear preference for candidates from the South, especially the South-West, at the expense of the North.
He claimed that out of a total of 1,785 shortlisted candidates, 1,244 were from the South while only 541 came from the North.
According to him, about 45 percent of the entire list roughly 803 candidates were from the South-West alone.
“The most outstanding and visible political blunder of Tinubu is that of open nepotism and foreign loans accumulation, an attitude he inherited from Buhari and even surpassed him a billion times over,” Shehu wrote.
“Bola’s nepotistic inclination and perfection is so glaring and compelling that one could surrender to him the title of ‘Emeritus Professor of Nepotism,’” he added.
The activist further accused the President of favouring his kinsmen in key appointments and major government projects.
“It is not enough that he handed over the management of Nigeria’s entire wealth institutions to the South-West. He was not satisfied even after allocating over 70 percent of his capital projects to the South-West,” he said.
“He feels no guilt that he decimated the entire economy of the North. He is satisfied that all parastals under the control of South westerners are skewing appointments, promotions etc in favour of the south west. ENDLESS EXAMPLES,” he added.
Shehu argued that the Customs recruitment list reflects open bias, partiality, and hate and that the Comptroller-General would not have acted in such a way if he knew Tinubu would be angry with him.
He said Northerners now feel hated and profiled under Tinubu’s administration, adding that many people from the region would prefer to live in a country of their own where they are not treated like beggars and animals.
Citing the Bible, Shehu ended his post with a warning: “The wicked make evil plans against good people… But the Lord laughs at the wicked because he sees that their day is coming,” he quoted from Psalms 37:12-13.
“When tomorrow comes, even the hypocritical Northerners will look back and pray,” he said, adding that no leader can build a nation with this level of open, deliberate, and well-crafted lopsidedness.”
