Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has said that the people of south-east region will not stoop so low to beg for the leadership position in either arm of the National Assembly.
Iwuanyanwu who spoke with our correspondent in Owerri, said that Igbo by nature are not used to playing second fiddle and so would not be subservient to the extent of begging anybody for their rights.
According to him, it is the right of the south-east to produce the Senate President as a major actor in the Nigerian project, after the North and the South West have clinched the positions of the President and Vice President respectively.
He said that the current arrangement in the sharing of principal offices in the National Assembly by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is to further undermine the position of Ndigbo as one the three major tribes that make up the country.
He said, “Igbo have made great contributions in the development and unity of the nation and should not be treated with levity at all times. South-east will not beg for the position of the Senate President or Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“Igbo are not fools, Igbo have talented people, we have no doubt in our mind that we are being marginalised. Let me tell other parts of Nigeria how the Igbo feel about issues, Igbo feel they are part of the success of Nigeria right from the time this country was founded. The Igbo have done better than most tribes in Nigeria, Igbo have distributed their resources across the nation.”
“Right now the Igbo are very unhappy, we have been pushed to a point of contempt and ridicule. There are some people in this country who just ridicule, some even say that the Igbo 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”.
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