National Assembly leadership: APC moves to pacify aggrieved aspirants National Assembly leadership: APC moves to pacify aggrieved aspirants
Yari warned that the election of the National Assembly leaders might not favour the ruling party despite its majority in the federal parliament if the impasse was not properly managed.
He said there was nothing wrong in the party’s leadership zoning the positions to geopolitical zones but everything, he said, is fundamentally wrong in micro-zoning it and pencilling down names.Kalu, a two-term governor of Abia State, also made a case for the region, saying that adopting some favoured aspirants was undemocratic.
He said, “I appeal to you people to cede something reasonable and valuable to the South East. Four years is like four days when it comes to elections. I am not saying that what you people have done does not look very nice. Addressing the NWC members, Musa argued that when dealing with rewards for regions for votes and electoral victory, the North should not be overlooked because of its massive contributions.
“I have seen a situation where one zone has the Secretary to the government of the Federation, the National Security Adviser, the Chief of Staff to the President, the President of the Senate and the roof didn’t come down but the little we have, Deputy Senate President, is taken away. We will abide by the party, but the party has to put in mind that this is a voluntary thing. This injustice, we need to correct it. We have six geopolitical zones.
When asked if the group expected a response from the APC and Tinubu within a specific time, Gagdi stated that the buck had been passed to the national leadership of the ruling party. Meanwhile, Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi has urged the national leadership of the APC to resolve the crisis caused by the zoning plan of the ruling party.
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