SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, (THEWILL) – United Progressives Party, UPP, in Anambra State on Monday advised politicians from the South-East geopolitical zone to stop trooping to Aso Rock in a bid to get President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint one of them as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF.
THEWILL recalls that Buhari had in April appointed Dr. Habibat Lawal from Bauchi State to act as the SGF, after he suspended Babachir Lawal who was accused of mismanaging funds meant for Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp.
UPP’s Publicity Secretary in Anambra State, Mr. Uche Amaku stated that it sparks of political gullibility for some Igbo politicians to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC, party just to win the job which, according to him will never be allowed to happen by the ruling party.
Speaking at a press conference in Awka, 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 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.”
