A socio-political group known as South East Youths and Elders Forum has
congratulated the President-elect, President Muhammadu Buhari on his
victory at the polls last weekend.
In a statement released to newsmen by the group’s Director of Media and
Publicity, Mazi Edwin Ikechukwu in Enugu, the group said President
Muhammadu Buhari deserve the victory considering the massive
infrastructural developments witnessed by the zone in the past three and
half years of his presidency.
In similar vein, the group also congratulated the ruling All Progressives
Congress for maintaining a clear lead among senators who will make up the
9th National Assembly.
However, the group urge the party to zone the post of the Senate President
to Southeast geo-political zone since the President and his vice came from
the north and south west regions.
The group also noted that since the party maintained it’s early zoning
arrangements which zoned the presidency to the north, the vice presidency
to the south west and senate presidency to the Southeast before the party
could not produce any senator from the region in 2015 Presidential and
National Assembly elections, the party should therefore make a categorical
statement reaffirming it’s commitment to the zoning of the senate
presidency to the Southeast region since the party now has two APC
Senators from the zone.
The statement further condemned the harassment of Igbos living in Lagos
State, saying political leaders from the state should come out openly to
condemn the undemocratic acts of domestic terrorism against the Igbos.