A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in
the South- East geo-political zone, Paul Ikonne,
on Wednesday said the recent appointment of
service chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari,
is devoid of sentiments.
Ikonne, who was the Imo State governorship
candidate of the defunct Action Congress of
Nigeria during the 2011 election, said this in an
interview in Abuja.
He noted that those criticizing the President’s
choice of helmsmen were being unfair to Nigeria
and the Nigerian people.
Ikonne explained that the Buhari’s appointment of
military chiefs was purely professional. The party
chief said, “Fighting Boko Haram is not something
you do by sentiment.”He appealed to his kinsmen
in the South-East geo-political zone not to
despair, because the Buhari-led APC
administration will carry every section of the
country along especially in terms of appointments
and projects.
According to him, those trying to score cheap
political points because no Igbo man made the list
of service chiefs would soon bury their heads in
shame, because President Buhari, has the whole
of Nigeria especially people of the South East in
mind.
He said, “For us in APC South-East, there is
nothing to worry about. It is too early for anybody
to begin to make such assumption considering
the fact that some of the appointments so far are
purely professional and fighting Boko Haram is
not something you do by sentiment.
“Also, more appointments are still there, sensitive
ones for that matter. So, anybody thinking that
the president will persecute or persecuting the
South-East, that person is just playing politics,
and that is not the position of the Igbos.”He
recalled that it is because of the importance the
President attaches to the South-East that the
President visited the entire states in the zone, a
record eight times before the last general
elections.This, he said, does not show a man who
doesn’t have a regard for the South-East. He also
expressed confidence that the President will
prioritise infrastructural development across the
nation out of which the South East stands to
benefit immensely.


source: punchng.com

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I detest sentiments