The APC Youth Alliance For Progress (APC-YAP) has thrown its weight behind the call by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu who urged the party and the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to recview the zoning arrangement for presiding officers of the 10th National Assembly.
The APC-YAP in a statement on Sunday in Abuja warned that ignoring the well-meaning advice of prominent stakeholders like the governor of Ondo state, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, was recipe for a fractured National Assembly, especially the House of Reps.
It would be recalled that Akeredolu had in a statement said the APC has skewed the 10th key offices of the nass in a way that it reinforces injustice and enhances inequity.
Akeredolu said the purported zoning arrangement released by the party “represents early signs of steps aimed at attempts to cabin the hard-earned presidency for our leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, by a few individuals with eyes on ASO ROCK POWER BUTTONS.”
The youth group statement signed by Isa Pai and Wahab Adeyemi argued that it “stands logic on the head for the party to reward indolence and perpetrate injustice at a time for inclusion and national healing.
“It is urgent for the party to discard the notion of handpicking officers for the 10th House of Reps. Nigerians are already wary of the party and not attempt should be made to reinforce the idea that the party does not care about party development and democracy.”
The APC-YAP wondered why the party that allowed an open field in the presidential primaries will now micro zone offices for the National Assembly as if it was a department of the party.
Akeredolu had stated, “It is an insidious permutation that North-east will be deprived in the face of the unsavoury generosity dispensed through two slots to a particular geo-political zone. It is self-repudiating for one to argue, therefore, that the Speaker of the House of Representatives cannot also emerge from the North-east.”
