Southeast Cannot Ask for Senate Presidency because It Has "failed to learn from its past mistakes": ACT Chieftain

A chieftain of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and leader of the Arewa Community in Southern Nigeria, Musa Saidu, has stated that the South-east region of Nigeria has no right to demand the Senate Presidency of the 10th National Assembly due to their failure to learn from their past mistakes. He made this statement while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday.

Saidu claimed that the South-east did not vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC), hence they cannot be in contention for the Senate Presidency.

"How can you come out to say that the President-elect should zone the Senate Presidency to South-east when you didn’t vote for him?
“When you ganged up to defeat the APC even in the stronghold of the president-elect, what were you thinking of?" he said.
He further stated that the South-east had demanded the position of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) in 2019 despite their lack of support for President Muhammadu Buhari.

Saidu emphasized that equity and fairness require that the Senate Presidency be given to the zone that worked for it. He suggested that the South-south zone should be considered for the position because they performed better in terms of voting for the APC in the last election.


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