A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and serving Senator, Dr. Chris Ngige, on Thursday in Abuja, said it was not true that the stability of the party in the South East zone was being threatened because of power sharing, adding that Igbos were not divided over who gets appointed as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF.
The former Anambra State governor stated this while speaking with journalists during the visit of a delegation of Ohaneze NdigboNgige to the President-elect, retired General Muhammadu Buhari.
He said: “We cannot say for now that our party has zoned the position of the SGF to the South-East because we have a standing committee that is still working on distribution of party offices.
“The import of what is happening, like you said, is that in the executive branch now, the South-East is not represented at all and in the legislature, we will not be represented because we have no senator from the South-East of Nigeria.
“We have two House of Representatives members who are not ranking and might not get any meaningful position in the end.
“It is in that wise that the people you saw here last week and today again have been consistently asking for position of the SGF to come to the South-East.”
Insisting there was no rancor in the South East zone of the party, Ngige said the people of the zone are disciplined people, urging Nigerians to ignore what people are saying in the media.
“We have a caucus and that caucus has met on that position, we are only waiting for the party to officially tell us this is your position and we will submit the name.
“We have come to a decision but when we get to the bridge we will cross it; let the party say South-East this is your position then we will not waste even one hour in submitting a name.”
The Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Raph Obioha, in his own submission said the Igbos believe there is an imbalance politically in the country.
“There is a creation and a feeling of an imbalance in the political equation, there must be a tripod in the political equation of Nigeria but that tripod seems to be missing one leg.
“If it is not truly harnessed well, it cannot stand but Buhari gave the assurance that he would treat the entire nation as his constituency for all and we believed him,” Obioha said.
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