Chidi Samuel || The United Progressive Party, UPP, has advised all the Igbo politicians rushing to Abuja to lobby for the position of Secretary to the Governmenment of the Federation, SGF to stop wasting their time because President Buhari will never appoint an Igbo man to the post.
The Party maintained that APC would never accept an SGF of southeast extraction, describing the party as a wrong association for Ndigbo.
Mr. Uche Anaku, UPP’s publicity Secretary gave the advise at a Press conference in Awka on Monday.
Amaku said, “It sparks of political gullibility for southeast politicians to believe that one of them would step into the position of Secretary to Government of Federation from which David Babachir Lawal was suspended.
“It is also self-delusion for politicians from Southeast to flock APC, with the erroneous belief that the exit of Lawal would pave the way for the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to correct the lopsided appointments it sustained in the past two years by appointing any of them.
“If our brothers and sisters that rushed into APC had a good sense of history or genuine political orientation, they should know that all through the tenure of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, the position of SGF was occupied by persons from the South.
“Therefore expecting that a northern President who has shown defined aversion for Ndigbo and Southeast would bend backward in a show of political repentance to consider any person from the zone, no matter how highly endowed, amounts to political daydreaming and historical blindness.”