A group under the aegis of ‘The Godswill Project’ (TGP), has contrasted the call to zone Senate Presidency to the South East. Convener of TGP Femi Odere described the clamour as ‘mischievous’.
The convener in a statement made available to journalists, accused the Coalition of APC Support Groups (CASG) of attempting to sway the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to zone the Senate presidency for the coming 10th National Assembly to the South-east.
Odere faulted the claim by CASG that conceding the Senate President position to the South-east geo-political zone would achieve “national cohesion and integration, and for peace to be pursued and delivered in the South-East political zone.
“While no harm, whatsoever, has been done by the Coalition in its support for the Senate Presidency to be conceded to the Southeast geopolitical region, it’s disingenuous, mischievous, and an attempt at subtle blackmail by the Coalition to have been emphatic in its submission that the insecurity challenges in the Southeast were the result of ‘non-inclusivity in principal elective appointments’ of people from the region since the birth of this political dispensation.
“This is nothing but a crass misrepresentation of the facts. The so-called ‘non-inclusivity’ of the Igbo in political appointments cannot also pass muster as it can even be argued that they have more than their fair share of political appointments while they’re also predominant in the commanding heights of the federal civil service since the beginning of the Fourth Republic,” he stated.