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APGA BoT Chairman Lauds Tinubu Over South East Development Commission

by PAUL UWADINMA
12 months ago
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The Board of Trustee (BoT) chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Chief Chekwas Okorie has commended President Bola Tinubu for signing into law, the South East Development Commission Bill.
In a statement yesterday in Abuja by the BoT chairman, who is also the founding national chairman of the party, recalled that the bill was first sponsored in 2017 by Hon. Chukwuka Onyema represented Ogbaru Federal Constituency, Anambra State in the House of Representatives, but it did not survive second reading.

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“In this year of our Lord 2024, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives resuscitated the bill and expanded its scope. It is with improved lobbying and more friendly House of Representatives that saw to the passage of the bill with commendable speed. The Senate did not delay in giving its concurrence. And when the bill was submitted to the President for assent the processes were carried out expeditiously which gave birth to what has now become the South East Development Commission Act.

“It is heartwarming that this Act among other specified objectives is principally aimed at addressing the infrastructural and other developmental deficits which resulted from the fratricidal Nigeria – Biafra war that ended in 1970. The Federal Government of Nigeria under General Yakubu Gowon announced the policy of No Victor, No Vanquished and pledged to implement the programme of Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (3R) in the war ravaged part of the then Biafra enclave which is now in the South East geopolitical zone of Nigeria,” he said.

He noted that the commitment of the Federal Government of Nigeria to deliver on the 3R was observed in the breach, adding that for a period of approximately 50 years after the end of the war there was no visible federal presence in accordance with the objective of the 3R.

“It is in this light that I see the patriotic action of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in enacting the South East Development Commission Act as a bold step to heal the wounds of the civil war and restore to the people of the South East geopolitical zone their well-deserved and long overdue sense of belonging in Nigeria, he said.

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