Revisit zoning formula for 9th Assembly, South-East APC tell Oshiomhole

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The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been urged to revisit the zoning formula for the 9th National Assembly to ensure equity and justice as well as avoid what happened in 2015 when some group of senators aligned with their counterparts from the Peoples Democratic Party to elect leaders outside the calculations of the APC.

South East caucus of the APC made the presentation to Oshiomhole and other leaders of the party on Saturday in Enugu in a communiqué at the end of its stakeholders’ meeting.

The National Vice Chairman, APC South East, Emma Enugwu, who read the communiqué, said that positions ought to be zoned in a more equitable manner, adding that the zone, which was left out in the arrangements, needed to be accorded a deserving position in the leadership arrangement.

“We urge the national leadership of our party to draw strength from the need to revisit the zoning of principal offices in the 9th NASS to further deepen and strengthen the electoral appeal of the party.

“Our great party should remain a truly national political party with broad based support in all parts of the country, the South East zone inclusive,” he said.

He said that the zone deplored the undue interference and meddlesomeness by forces from outside the zone in the affairs of the zone.

“We urge our members in the zone to resist such and also implore those involved to promptly discontinue same in order to strengthen our party,” he said.

Enukwu called on members of the party in the zone to redouble their efforts in the pursuit of constructive opposition in their various states.

“We should rededicate ourselves to reclaiming the South East for the APC. This is a challenge which we must confront and defeat,” he said.