Please appoint Igbos in your cabinet Obiano pleads with Buhari

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Willy Obiano,the Governor of anambra state has urged Gen. Mohammadu
Buhari (retd), to appoint Igbo into prominent positions while forming
his cabinet.
He said the forthcoming Buhari's administration would require the
support of all Nigerians irrespective of their party affiliations to
success.
The governor spoke after a closed-door meeting with the
President-elect at his private residence in Abuja on Friday.
Obiano said he was in Abuja not only to congratulate the
President-elect and reassure him of the support of the South-East, but
also to plead with him to consider Anambra indigenes for appointments.
The governor said, "I am also here to reassure him that Anambra and
the South-East would support him. I also pleaded with him on some
pressing problems that are of importance to the South-East like the
second Niger bridge and some of the federal roads.
"We also pleaded in the area of appointment for the people of Anambra
and of course, for people from the South-East be it ministerial,
ambassadorial and what have you."
The governor, however, dismissed insinuation that his visit was part
of consultations to pave way for him to defect to the All Progressives
party.
Similarly, a coalition of Igbo groups demanded that the position of
the Speaker of the House of Representatives should be zoned to the
South-East in the next political dispensation.
The groups are Igbo Youth Vanguard, Abia Democratic Initiative, Imo
Professionals for Democracy, United Igbo Traders Association and South
East Students Unions.
In a statement signed by their leader, Mr. Chikezie Emezuo and
Coordinator of the Imo Professional for Democracy, the groups
explained that it was against the principle of federal character and
national justice for the North to keep the Presidency, the Senate and
the Speaker of the House of Representatives positions.
Stressing that any move to marginalise Ndigbo will not be accepted,
the groups decried a purported zoning formula where the South-East
could be schemed out of the leadership of the national legislature.
They expressed regret that the Igbo were being reminded that they were
defeated and be treated as second class citizens at a time the
negative effect of the civil war was wearing out.
They said it would be wrong for the Igbo to be denied top positions in
the National Assembly because majority of them voted for the Peoples
Democratic Party in the last elections.
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