9th Assembly: S/East won’t beg for Senate presidency, House speakership - Iwuanyanwu

9th Assembly: S/East won’t beg for Senate presidency, House speakership - Iwuanyanwu

- Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu says the south-east region won’t be subjected to begging for the position of Senate president or speaker of the House of Representatives

- Iwuanyanwu alleged that the APC’s current arrangement in the sharing of principal offices in the National Assembly is aimed at further undermining Ndigbo

- The Igbo leader said Igbos are very unhappy at the moment as they have been pushed to a point of contempt and ridicule

- Iwuanyanwu insisted that contrary to insinuations, Igbos don’t have anything against President Muhammadu Buhari

Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, a prominent Igbo leader and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that the south-east region won’t be subjected to begging for the position of Senate president or speaker of the House of Representatives.

In a chat with The Nation in Owerri, the Imo state capital, Iwuanyanwu argued that as a major stakeholder in the Nigerian project, it is the right of the south-east to produce the Senate president.

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Legit.ng gathers that he said this was after the North and south-west have produced the country’s president and vice president respectively.

The Igbo chieftain alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s current arrangement in the sharing of principal offices in the National Assembly is aimed at further undermining Ndigbo as one the three major tribes that make up the country.

He said Igbos should not be treated with levity at all times, as they have made great contributions in the development and unity of the nation.

He said: “The south-east will not beg for the position of the Senate president or speaker of the House of Representatives.

“Igbos are not fools, Igbos have talented people. We have no doubt in our mind that we are being marginalised.

“Let me tell other parts of Nigeria how the Igbos feel about issues. Igbos feel they are part of the success of Nigeria right from the time this country was founded.

“The Igbos have done better than most tribes in Nigeria, Igbos have distributed their resources across the nation.

“Right now the Igbos are very unhappy. We have been pushed to a point of contempt and ridicule.

“There are some people in this country who just ridicule us; some even say that the Igbos have been sacked from this country.

“Take for instance the issue of the railway, none passed through Igboland and this is being financed with a loan that all of us will repay.”

Iwuanyanwu insisted that contrary to insinuations, Igbos don’t have anything against President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said: “The Igbos have nothing against Buhari at all; but a fundamental mistake was made in 2015 when a son of the eastern region, Goodluck Jonathan, was running for a second term.

"The Igbos felt he needed a second term; but that does not mean that they hated Bubari in any way.”

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In a similar development, Legit.ng previously reported that Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state said there will be a sort of imbalance in the Nigerian political space if the next president or deputy of the Senate does not come from the south-east geopolitical zone.

Okorocha, at the State House in Abuja on Monday, April 1, said: “I’ve been watching carefully what is happening in the National Assembly, it’s a very funny drama.

"But all I ask from them is that they should consider the south-east in their calculations. This nation will not be properly balanced if south-east is not carried along properly in the affairs of the National Assembly.”

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