A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and National
President of the South East Consultative Parliament, Udo Mbu Agoha, has
said that the party should be considered a party in the South-East if
the region fails to get any of the principal offices of the National
Assembly.
Agoha, a former executive Chairman of Owerri North Council and
commissioner for Agriculture, Environment, Petroleum and Natural
Resource stated this in an interview with the Sun, adding that former
Abia governor, Orji Uzor Kalu should be expressly picked as the Deputy
Senate President.
He said, “Who zoned it? And if that is the case it can be re-zoned to
the South East and since it was done without us I don’t think it is
proper.
“I think if the party really wants the zone to support the APC, I
think conceding the position to the South East is not too much.
“But if they think that they cannot re-zone it then Orji Kalu should be expressly considered for the Deputy Senate President.
“If the South East does not get any of the principal officer’s positions, then count APC as a dead party in the South East.
“We have strong leaders of the party in the zone like Orji Kalu and
other prominent persons but it is not a guarantee that the APC is going
to survive because those strong party chieftains will not have any
campaign point to retain the people in APC in 2023.
“So, something must come to us with which we can use to persuade the
people not to desert the party that something good is coming.
“If we don’t get any principal officers position it would be
difficult to convince the people on why they should remain in APC. And
that would be disastrous for the party.”
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