Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under the aegis of APC Renaissance Group have called on the leadership of the party to direct efforts towards healing and reconciliation in the country in the ongoing process of selecting principal officers of the 10th National Assembly.
In a statement yesterday by its national coordinator, Jideoffor Chebe, and Tajudeen Gbadamosi, the group expressed dismay that the party is insensitive to the clamour for national healing “of a country that is sharply divided along obvious ethnic and regional fault lines”.
It noted that after four years of enduring an “administration which choices were at variance with the hopes and aspirations of the people and a government whose appointments and selection process did not consider the ethnic and regional diversity of Nigeria, the party under the new administration should not be quick again to repeat such feats.
According to the stakeholders, the current zoning formula in which the North West is asked to be the deputy Senate president and Speaker of the House of Representatives is like continuing the Buhari era.
The statement noted: “Or should we wonder if our great party has adopted a script of marginalization of other regions and ethnic groups to feed the parochial interest of a few.
The present situation needs to be quickly addressed so that every part of the country will have a sense of identity in Nigeria. Otherwise, what is there to tell anyone from the north central which has contributed immensely to President Bola Tinubu’s victory, that His Excellency values loyalty to the party?
“We urge the National Working Committee (NWC) to do the needful, and correct a mistake already made before it becomes our national culture, as this will breed resentment, kill patriotic zeal in country men and women, as well as create a system of thinking where people wait for their turn to take their bounds of flesh”.
The group however expressed confidence in the Tibunu-led administration to bring the much needed national healing that the country so desires.
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