Reps Leadership: Heed Akeredolu, Stakeholders’ Wise Counsel – Group Tasks APC
The Youth Alliance For Progress (APC-YAP) on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has called on the party national leadership and the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to heed the wise counsel, progressive and patriotic advice of some leaders of the party to jettison the zoning arrangement it adopted.
The APC-YAP in a statement on Sunday in Abuja stressed that ignoring the well-meaning advice of prominent stakeholders like the governor of Ondo state, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, would be a recipe for a fractured National Assembly, especially the House of Representatives.
Governor Akeredolu had in a statement titled, “Proposed APC Zoning Formula for NASS Leadership Positions is a Skewed Arrangement that Reinforces Injustice And Enhances Inequity,” noted with great concern that the purported zoning arrangement released by the party “represents early signs of steps aimed at attempts to cabin the hard-earned presidency for our leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, by a few individuals with eyes on ASO ROCK POWER BUTTONS.”
Taking a cue from there, the youth group in a statement by Isa Pai and Wahab Adeyemi noted that it “stands logic on the head for the party to reward indolence and perpetrate injustice at a time for inclusion and national healing.
The group further said that it was urgent for the party to discard the notion of handpicking officers for the 10th House of Representatives, stressing that Nigerians are already wary of the party thus, should not attempt to reinforce the idea that the party does not care about party development and democracy.
Referencing Governor Akeredolu, the APC-YAP wondered why the APC that allowed an open field in the presidential primaries will now micro zone offices for the National Assembly as if it was a department of the party.
Akeredolu had stated, “It is an insidious permutation that the North-east will be deprived in the face of the unsavoury generosity dispensed through two slots to a particular geo-political zone. It is self-repudiating for one to argue, therefore, that the Speaker of the House of Representatives cannot also emerge from the North-east”.
