{"id":80904,"date":"2025-12-28T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80904"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:30:00","slug":"nassembly-staff-protest-alleged-breach-of-federal-character-in-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/28\/nassembly-staff-protest-alleged-breach-of-federal-character-in-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"N\u2019Assembly Staff Protest Alleged Breach of Federal Character in Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Staff of the National Assembly have protested alleged violations of the federal character principle in the appointment of secretaries, warning that continued disregard for constitutional provisions could lead to industrial unrest.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was contained in a letter by the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), National Assembly chapter, addressed to the Chairman of the National Assembly Service Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, dated December 22 and signed by the union chairman, Sabiyyi Sunday, was made available to journalists in Abuja on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>PASAN cited Section 14(3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), and the Federal Character Commission Act, accusing the commission of repeatedly appointing candidates from states already represented in the secretary cadre while excluding other states within the same geopolitical zone.<\/p>\n<p>According to the union, the practice undermines fairness and violates the spirit of equitable representation.<\/p>\n<p>It urged the commission to ensure strict compliance with federal character provisions, warning that continued neglect could deepen perceptions of bias and threaten industrial harmony.<\/p>\n<p>PASAN also commended President Bola Tinubu for reversing the promotion of his Aide-De-Camp, describing the move as a demonstration of fairness and adherence to due process, and urged the commission to adopt a similar standard in its appointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Immaculata Staff of the National Assembly have protested alleged violations of the federal character principle in the appointment of secretaries, warning that continued disregard for constitutional provisions could lead to industrial unrest. The protest was contained in a letter by the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), National Assembly chapter, addressed to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80906,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80904\/revisions\/80906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}