The exclusion of South East legislators from the leadership of the National Assembly is a threat to national unity, according to elder statesman, Alhaji Tako Yakassai.

Yakassai, in an interview with reporters in Kano on Tuesday, expressed surprise that the leadership of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) did not consider the ethnic nationality in its office sharing.

Senator Ike Ekweremadu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), from the South East, emerged as the Deputy Senate President out of the crisis that followed sharp disagreements in the APC on the candidates that were to fill the positions.
His emergence is still being hotly resisted by the APC.

Yakasai described the sharing of positions of the APC as lop-sided, and an indication that the governing party is subsuming national interests under personal interests.

His words: “It is quite shocking that at the end of the meeting of some All Progressives Congress leaders at Aso Rock, called by President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Gbajamiala, who contested the Speakership against Yakubu Dogora and lost, emerged the Leader of the House.
“I can recall that before President Buhari’s intervention, the Dogara group accepted to concede the position of the Leader of the House to the Gbajamiala’s group, but with the condition that the position will not go to the South-West.”

Yakassai said further: “It was surprising that after the meeting between the National Chairman of APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, Gbajabiamiala and Dogara at the Villa, they came back and did otherwise.

“Again, immediately after Femi (Gbajabiamila) was announced the Leader of the House, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu paid a visit to the Villa apparently to thank President Buhari for intervening in favour of Femi Gbajamiala.

“Now, in the House leadership, South-West has two major slots and the South-East has nothing. This is not a good development.”

Yakasai, who was Political Adviser to former President Shehu Shagari, warned that with the set up in the House of Representatives, those now clamouring for the removal of Senator Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President, should be wary of the consequences.

According to him, Ekweremadu is the only representative of the South-East in the National Assembly leadership.

He advised Buhari to be conscious of the marginalisation already suffered by the South-East while constituting his cabinet so as to ensure proper representation of that region in the government of the day.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
A govt of the north cum their slaves(sophisticated people)

cccxxiii:
This man should stop crying more than the bereaved. All the way from Kano! Ike is from South East and that solves it. He can cry if he is impeached in the future.

AshiwajuFoward:


Imagine them o? Very confused bunch. One minute they are shouting Biafra and bragging that they don't care about appointments, the next they are screaming marginalization, and the next they are celebrating NNPC Gmd appointment while in the same breathe some of them are claiming the appointee is not a "core" igboman. Can a bunch of people be any more confused? ?

AshiwajuFoward:


Imagine them o? Very confused bunch. One minute they are shouting Biafra and bragging that they don't care about appointments, the next they are screaming marginalization, and the next they are celebrating NNPC Gmd appointment while in the same breathe some of them are claiming the appointee is not a "core" igboman. Can a bunch of people be any more confused? ?

AshiwajuFoward:


Imagine them o? Very confused bunch. One minute they are shouting Biafra and bragging that they don't care about appointments, the next they are screaming marginalization, and the next they are celebrating NNPC Gmd appointment while in the same breathe some of them are claiming the appointee is not a "core" igboman. Can a bunch of people be any more confused? ?

UncleJudax:

Who is this cross-bred loud-mouthed goat.

Always peddling cheap-ass propaganda. A Northerner says something, your stuppid self couldnt hit back at him. Did you hear any Igbo voice in the article?

Evergreen coward!

Spits

RichDad1:
They are reaping according to the 5% rule.

Udmaster:
shup up and mind ur bizness. You ewedu eater from a diabolic tribe.. An Hausa man said something and u are here yabbing nonsense. BUNKOM.

Femolacaster:
Tanko Yakassai is now the spokesperson for SE!

AustineE1:

Not to worry,until Biafra comes to be,for now we must get everything that is due to us,it is never a privilege but a right. Come to think of it, GMD of NNPC and minister of Petroleum should be the birth right of Igbos and south-southerners,this is where oil(Oyel)is generated from....go and hug the transformer. olodo!
Yorubas shld be given ministry of information,they talk too much and they are good at media propaganda.

UncleJudax:

In reality, the majority of Nigerians, regardless of geopolitical zone, tribe or religion, are the 5%.

Politicians are what they are, politicians.

That the North have always been more than adequately represented in every central government hasn't changed the situation in northern Nigeria. Political appointments/ positions are different from the will to perform.

You guys gbadun pettiness.

AshiwajuFoward:


Imagine them o? Very confused bunch. One minute they are shouting Biafra and bragging that they don't care about appointments, the next they are screaming marginalization, and the next they are celebrating NNPC Gmd appointment while in the same breathe some of them are claiming the appointee is not a "core" igboman. Can a bunch of people be any more confused? ?

UncleJudax:

In reality, the majority of Nigerians, regardless of geopolitical zone, tribe or religion, are the 5%.

Politicians are what they are, politicians.

That the North have always been more than adequately represented in every central government hasn't changed the situation in northern Nigeria. Political appointments/ positions are different from the will to perform.

You guys gbadun pettiness.

AshiwajuFoward:


Yinmu. If your stvpid self had been more observant you'd have noticed that the post you are throwing tantrums over was actually in response to another poster's comment. But in any case, everything I wrote is reflective of the two-faced/confused disposition of the SE, politically.

AshiwajuFoward:


Lol. E pain am.

UncleJudax:

A post that aligned with your irritating persona? How do you sleep? Igbos Igbos, Igbos...yet they are insignificant.

Not that I give a rats ass though, but what more can be a measure for your innately acquired delusion?

Boy, dig deep, igbos are not your problem. And your kinsmen getting appointments in Buharis's govt, would not change your roof.