The Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the leading Igbo socio-cultural organization, has urged federal lawmakers from the zone to vote for its top officials according to their preferences in the 10th National Assembly.
The statement was made by Chiedozie Ogbonnia, national publicity secretary for Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Awka.
According to Ogbonnia, the organization disagrees with the ruling party’s proposed zoning of the 10th National Assembly’s important offices.
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He said that Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, the head of the Igbo group, had authorized all Igbo parliamentarians to cast their votes at their discretion.
The Igbo Apex group, according to Ogbonnia, rejects the idea of zoning for the Senate and House of Representatives’ main offices in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He claimed that after careful analysis and research, the panel found the South East’s selection for the Deputy Speaker post to be very offensive to the Igbo race.
“The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has watched with keen concern the zoning of principal offices of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“We have also observed that the All Peoples Congress (APC) zoned the position of the Deputy Speaker to the South East of Nigeria, and this we considered to be unacceptable,” he said.
Ogbonnia said that the lawmakers should have the best interest of the nation at heart in all their duties as national legislators to ensure that longings of the geo-political zones would be addressed.
He said that the federal lawmakers should be independent in their core decisions and work in a harmonious manner irrespective of their political parties, religion or ethnicity to bridge any gap of disunity.
(Source: vanguard)
