The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) says if the first ever Nigerian born female military officer to rise to the prestigious rank of a General in the U.S. Army is Yoruba or a man, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would have personally congratulated her on her unprecedented feat. HURIWA said it got the perception from an opinion poll it ran on Monday.

HURIWA in a statement faulted the fact that “the nation’s leader didn't take significant notice that a Nigerian woman could rise so phenomenally in the world's best and most organised military: US military just as the group said downgrading the attendant national pride of what was achieved by the female US Army General by letting only the mere department known as the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission to send a congratulatory message instead of the country’s President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.”

In the statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA criticised “the unhealthy silence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu towards the celebration of the feat attained by Amanda Azubuike in the USA.” It said most Nigerians spoken to by it all over Nigeria “were of the considered opinion, wrongly or rightly, that were the lady a man or a Yoruba female, President Tinubu who has appointed only his Yoruba kinsmen and women to virtually all national strategic offices, would have personally endorsed the congratulatory message to General Azubuike.”

“HURIWA is therefore asking President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to do the needful by congratulating the lady to demonstrate that he is a detribalised statesman,” the statement said.