A federal lawmaker, Anayo Nwonu, believes that the South East region will be further short-changed when President Muhammadu Buhari, releases his mininisterial list.
Despite the fact that the constitution mandates the President to select ministers from all states, Nwonu, who represents Ezza North/Ishielu Federal Constituency of Ebonyi State, revealed to Vanguard that South East will be ill-treated.
“APC has so far picked its people in the leadership, so all we have to do is to support them. In terms of whether the South East was short-changed or not, I will say yes, the region was short-changed completely. There was no reason for that.
When they were shouting during the electioneering period that they would accord the South East priority, I knew all were just mere promises to get the support of our people at the election. For me, if I had the opportunity of going back to the polls again, I would still support the PDP. Anyway, they have done what they wanted. And the region will still be ill-treated in the appointment of ministers.”
Furthermore, he added that limiting the corruption probe to the administration of Goodluck Jonathan, will prove that the administration of Muhammadu Buhari, is biased.
“I am not in support of the focus on Jonathan’s administration. I believe that narrowing the probe to Jonathan’s administration would appear as if it is a personal fight. I am personally supporting him to fight corruption but the fight must be broad based. It must go beyond the Jonathan administration. They should look into the activities that happened in previous administrations.
Like I said, narrowing it to the government of Jonathan will show us that the Buhari leadership is a one-sided leadership that is just out to hunt a particular group in the country based on their political inclination.”
