*9TH ASSEMBLY SPEAKERSHIP: AREWA YOUTHS ENDORSE NWAJIUBA*


The *Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF)* has endorsed *Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba* as Speaker for the House of Representatives.

*Alhaji Yerima Shettima,* National President of the AYCF who made this known in an interactive session with newsmen in Kaduna said the group’s support was purely in the interest of “national stability, fairness and balance towards our neighbours in the Southeast”.

Shettima further explained that one of the best ways to strengthen national unity and cohesion was lending a hand of support and friendship across the nation, adding that Nwajiuba “is already broad-minded politician with several years of experience in legal work, administration and lawmaking”.

He noted that Nwajiuba had made significant impact when he was in the House of Reps between 1999 and 2003, representing Ukigwe South Federal Constituency of Imo State.

“He performed wonderfully as Chairman House Committee on Land and Housing. While he was away gunning for governorship seat between 2003, 2007 and 2011, he lost by a narrow margin of votes, because of acceptability.

“Beyond being a professional lawyer with a Master’s Degree and PhD in Law, he served diligently as Secretary of the Constitution Drafting Committee that produced the APC itself”, Yerima added.

He went on to say that the AYCF believed in having “young breed of politicians in strategic positions of leadership at the level of the higher law-making body in the country”. He also noted that on a scale of competence, the likes of Nwajiuba “have all it takes to launch us into the digital world and help the law-making business break away from the analogue world”.

He also stressed that if the current race for the 9th House of Reps Speakership would be based on a candidate that is naturally on consistent and a nationalist “Nwajiuba will be simply unbeatable”.

The AYCF National President then urged all the members-elect of the current House of Reps to rally round Nwajiuba “on grounds of years of experience and ability to deliver on his assignments”.

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/05/26/9th-assembly-speakership-arewa-youths-endorse-nwajiuba
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The truth is you can't reap where you did not sow

Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba diligently sowed and has been a loyalist to President Muhammadu Buhari even before APC was formed.

If he wins, the north has made an ally with a region that never forgets..

Esseite:
If he wins, the north has made an ally that never forgets..

He is a dependable personality.

Shady story with no source?

kingi777:
Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba diligently sowed and has been a loyalist to President Muhammadu Buhari even before APC was formed.

That makes him a poor representative of his people. Gbaja we know.

Next!

[quote author=QuotaSystem post=78752249]Shady story with no source?

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/05/26/9th-assembly-speakership-arewa-youths-endorse-nwajiuba.
Click and read directly from their web. I also urge you to support a true Nigerian for once irrespective of his region.

[quote author=kingi777 post=78752345][/quote]

He should get the support of his home base for his party first before looking up North.

All politics is local.

Please tell the house what the South East has invested in the Ruling Party for it to give up the No. 4 position in the country to them.

Listening.

QuotaSystem:


He should get the support of his home base for his party first before looking up North.

All politics is local.

Please tell the house what the South East has invested in the Ruling Party for it to give up the No. 4 position in the country to them.

Listening.

Through people like Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, the President was able to garner tangible no of votes from the South East.

kingi777:

Through people like Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, the President was able to garner tangible no of votes from the South East.

Can you please be specific?

What percentage of SE votes went to the APC compared to the PDP?

Great endorsement. Yerima and his fellow Arewa youths should come out and vote for him on the floor of the house once it is time for election. With their massive votes, there is no stopping him. Rt Hon Nwajiuba, Speaker of the Yerima Arewa youth forum.

QuotaSystem:


Can you please be specific?

What percentage of SE votes went to the APC compared to the PDP?

He directly represents his community in the NASS, and his people voted for him to represent them..

Is he a NASS member of the entire SE?
Did Gbaja contribute to eti-osa LGA voting the APC?

His power is restricted around his community and he delivered... so yes he garnered votes within his powers to increase the number of NASS members of his party.

Moreover screaming ATIEFKU all through last year despite no conviction and a trip to the USA, one wonders how one supports GBAJA, proven guilty, indicted and dare not step a toe on the American soil..

Corruption ends with us the masses..

Esseite:


He directly represents his community in the NASS, and his people voted for him to represent them..

Is he a NASS member of the entire SE?
Did Gbaja contribute to eti-osa LGA voting the APC?

Clever by half.

Why should the leadership of the House of Reps be conceded to the region with the LEAST political stake in the APC by far; the party with the clear majority in the house?

Nobody is stopping him from representing his people on the floor.

QuotaSystem:


Clever by half.

Why should the leadership of the House of Reps be conceded to the region with the LEAST political stake in the APC by far; the party with the clear majority in the house?

Nobody is stopping him from representing his people on the floor.

Are all the other NASS members not directly representing their community , did Dogara build a bridge in the East, or Tambuwal in the West?...

if we go by your logic, we can aswell pick from regions with 100% APC NASS members rather than a stint of National spread.

waiting for the cry cry babies of the west

Esseite:


Are all the other NASS members not directly representing their people, did Dogara build a bridge in the East, or Tambuwal mark in the West?...

if we go by your logic, we can aswell pick from regions with 100% APC NASS members rather than National spread.

The APC majority House leadership can never go to the South East which has the lowest number of APC Reps.

The No. 4 position in the land can never go to the South East which has the LOWEST stake in the Ruling Party.

The Speaker of the HOR can never go to the South East which has repeatedly and continuously rejected the Ruling Party and it's interests.

You and I know these already, but let's wait for the Arewa Youths

QuotaSystem:


The APC majority House leadership can never go to the South East which has the lowest number of APC Reps.

The No. 4 position in the land can never go to the South East which has the LOWEST stake in the Ruling Party.

The Speaker of the HOR can never go to the South East which has repeatedly and continuously rejected the Ruling Party and it's interests.

You and I know these already, but let's wait for the Arewa Youths

Okay, remember to come along with your PVC...

Esseite:


Okay, remember to come along with your PVC...

Don't worry I have a REP for that & we are voting Nwajiuba en masse

APC, diversity management and political morality-By Emma Agu
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/apc-diversity-management-and-political-morality
One of the paradoxes of the Nigerian State is the pervasive tendency to define justice in very narrow, self-serving terms. This is especially the case when the issue at stake, borders on resource distribution; be it political appointments, distribution of projects or budgetary allocation. The result of this paradox can be found in skewed appointments, denial of equity, lip service to inclusion and diversity; all snowballing into the spectre of unending agitations for restructuring or self determination, that continues to plague the polity.
There is no doubt that the definition of justice has always been problematic. Nevertheless, no matter how justice is defined, it must include notions of equity and fairness. And for justice to make sense within the context of an ethnically plural society such as Nigeria, it ought to be holistically embraced, to capture the totality of the significant and, at times, painful sacrifices and contributions, made by of all the stakeholder groups in an effort to accommodate the “weak”, no matter how that weakness is manifested, be it in academics or resource endowment, to mention just a few.
That is why the convoluted argument that has trailed the jostling for the positions, of principal officers, in the next National Assembly, deserves to be subjected to dispassionate scrutiny and honest resolution if, indeed, we sincerely desire a solution to the challenge of nation-building. One sour point in the argument has been the position of those who insist that the South East does not deserve to head either the Senate or the House of Representatives. Advocates of this position hinge it on the claim that the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, did not garner enough votes from the zone.
Statistically, that could be correct. Yet, it is an argument that is flawed because it has not considered the weight of each vote that the APC got in the South East. It should never be forgotten that the President was required to emerge through not just the plurality of votes but by achieving a spread determined by scoring 25 percent of votes cast in two-thirds of the states of the Federation. President Buhari met that requirement in Abia, Ebonyi and Imo States; that is, in three out of the five states of the South East. Percentage-wise, that translates to 67 percent success in the South East. When compared that with his performance in the zone in 2015, not only does this translate to a profound improvement in the performance of the APC, it also confers on the President greater legitimacy.
It will amount to a gross understatement to say that that performance did not come by happenstance. As any unbiased watcher of the political dynamics of the South East will readily admit, was the outcome of the doggedness of the APC leaders in the zone; a performance that deserves commendation. Dr. Chris Ngige, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, Dr. Uche Ogar, Hon. T.O.E. Ekechi, Senator Hope Uzodinma, Senator Ngozi Nwaogu, and their compatriots encountered formidable odds, risked stigmatization and suffered physical abuse; all in a relentless effort to give the APC a national character and ensure that the President was not denied the two-thirds requirement in the South East. They succeeded. It is within this context that the disingenuous attempt, by some politicians and commentators, to deny the South East zone the leadership of one of the arms of the National Assembly, should be seen as the height of mischief if not outright disregard for the unity and stability of Nigeria. This is even more repugnant, with the emergence of Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba as one of the top contenders for the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Proponents of the winner-takes all, of ‘might is right,’ line of argument, conveniently ignore the fact that if the winner-takes-all principle was to apply in every competitive situation such as Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination, candidates from certain zones may have great difficulty gaining admission into Nigerian universities, to study courses requiring very high scores. But the framers of our Constitution and successive administrations were perceptive enough to eliminate such an extreme position. That is why JAMB scores are lowered for candidates from some states of the Federation. That is the meaning of diversity; the rationale behind Affirmative Action in the United States of America and the essence of the Federal Character Principle in Nigeria. That is why President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the National Assembly should reject the attempt to MARGINALIZE and retire, to political oblivion, one of the historical TRIPODs on which Nigeria’s Federal structure has always rested.
Pray, where are the proponents of exclusion based on electoral performance when JAMB candidates from the South East are denied university admission in order to accommodate their counterparts from other zones? Where are the proponents of electoral performance when, in spite of sterling performance, civil servants from some zones are compelled to mark time at the same level in order accommodate their counterparts from other parts of the country? Why should we not apply the same principle of quota system, federal character and zoning in determining leadership positions in the legislature? When has it become the case that what is good for the goose is not good for the gander?
President Buhari and the leadership of the APC will be making a grave mistake if they succumb to the shenanigans of politicians with dubious nationalistic credentials who have no qualms denying the South East against zone the equity they had demanded, for their zone, in time past. To buttress this point, it is instructive that those elements who, in 2011 swore never to forgive President Goodluck Jonathan, for failing to stop the conspiracy that denied the South West the position of Speaker, are in the forefront of the unholy alliance to thwart the justifiable demand of the South East for the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives. As events turned out, neither did they forget nor did they forgive both the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan. In fact, some people believe that the Jonathan Presidency ended the very date Tambuwal ascended the throne to the exclusion of the south west. You are left to wonder why those strong voices of equity from the South West have now either gone quiet or are singing a completely different tune under the same moral challenge.
It is annoying when some self-serving politicians try to hoodwink us into accepting that there is no morality or principle in politics; that everything is about expediency. That is correct only for the malevolent characters who have held the polity captive and who manipulate the naivety of the innocent electorate, to foist on the polity a moral regime that neither promotes development nor enthrones social harmony. To such people, they should dust up the Seven Deadly Sins of Humanity, and read about politics without principles, as postulated by the legendary Indian Leader, Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi, whose impact on social and political thought explain the soar away success that India’s democracy has recorded and why today, in spite of a huge population, the country has taken its seat among the world’s tech giants.
It takes some genuine self-examination and concerted pursuit of justice, based on equity and fairness, to succeed in nation-building. That is why, in spite of earlier missteps, President Buhari’s recent assurance that he would run an inclusive administration, is not only reassuring but inspirational.
The point to start is at the National Assembly, the repository of the Sovereign Will of the people. The President should ignore all self-serving gladiators posturing for 2023. Let him rise to the same statesmanship that earned Nelson Mandela, the status of a global icon. Let the South East produce the Speaker of the Ninth House of Representatives. That is justice based on equity and fairness; and that will strengthen the APC in the South East, for future electoral exploits and success.

Nwajiuba is accessible and intelligent. His ability to network and build friendships across the six geo-political zones is legendary. That is why his emergence and interest in the speaker’s position has received groundswell support and upset the apple cart of established mercantile power-brokers.

This country don tie me

An opportunity beckons for the healing process to begin at the incoming Ninth National Assembly where lovers of truth and justice have been clamouring that the South-East should be allowed to produce the next Speaker of the House of Representatives.