9th NASS: South East APC Wants Zoning Revisited

The South East APC zone has urged the party’s national leadership to revisit the zoning arrangement of principal offices in the 9th National Assembly. The national vice chairman, APC south-east, Emma Enukwu, said that positions ought to be zoned in a more equitable manner. Enukwu said the APC should remain a truly national political party with broad based support in all parts of the country, the south-east zone inclusive.

The national vice chairman also implored members of the party in the zone to redouble their efforts in the pursuit of constructive opposition in their various states. The members of the party in the zone made the call on Saturday, April 27 in Enugu in a communiqué issued at the end of its stakeholders’ meeting, NAN reports.

National vice chairman, APC south-east, Emma Enukwu, who read the communiqué, said that positions ought to be zoned in a more equitable manner. Enukwu said that that the zone, which was left out in the arrangements, needed to be accorded a deserving position in the leadership arrangement. “We urge the national leadership of our party to draw strength from the need to revisit the zoning of principal offices in the 9th NASS to further deepen and strengthen the electoral appeal of the party.

“Our great party should remain a truly national political party with broad based support in all parts of the country, the south-east zone inclusive,” he said. He said that the zone deplored the undue interference and meddlesomeness by forces from outside the zone in the affairs of the zone. “We urge our members in the zone to resist such and also implore those involved to promptly discontinue same in order to strengthen our party,” he said.

Enukwu called on members of the party in the zone to redouble their efforts in the pursuit of constructive opposition in their various states. “We should rededicate ourselves to reclaiming the south-east for the APC. This is a challenge which we must confront and defeat,” he said. Enukwu said that the party was confident that its members that won elective positions during the just concluded elections would meet the aspirations of their people.

Earlier the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) advised the APC to cede key positions in the 9th National Assembly to the south-east zone. The council gave the advice through its Orlu zonal chairman, John Nwaulu, who spoke to newsmen in Owerri. Nwaulu, a former youth president of the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ISOPADEC), Ohaji/Egbema chapter, stressed that the leadership of the 9th National Assembly, should not be hijacked.

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