APC’s Exclusion Of S/East From Senate Presidency Race Is Against Equity- Nwodo

The plot to zone the president of the tenth Senate outside the South-east part of the country is a continuation of the marginalisation of the people of the region by the APC-led federal government.

Chief Charles Agadenyi Nwodo stated this in an interview with THE WHISTLER on Thursday. He was responding to endorsements coming the way of former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, who is allegedly favoured by president-elect Bola Tinubu to be Senate president.

Nwodo, a former national chairman of the Progressives Action Congress, PAC, said the rising agitation in the Southeast is a result of their exclusion by the APC-led regime of President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to him, “What it portends is that the exclusion of South East is a continuum of the APC government. The zone, under the entire regime of Buhari, was excluded from the security architecture of the country. Also, the transition committee of Tinubu excluded South East.

“That is the agitation that has being going on in the Eastern part of the country. Nobody is agitating to pull out of the country without due process. What we are agitating for is justice and equity.”

He however advised for calm, adding that ‘what is playing out currently is still presumptuous’. According to him, ‘let’s wait until the action is done, then we can have a case to make our point.”

He recalled that, “President Buhari, while congratulating Osun Governor, Ademola Adeleke, on his victory at the Supreme Court, charged him on equity and to run an inclusive government.” Nwodo however asked: “Did Buhari in about eight years of his administration show any sign of inclusive government for Easterners?”