Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has faulted the All Progressives Congress (APC) for failing to appoint a South Easterner as the acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
OsunDailyNG reported that Senator Abdullahi Adamu resigned as the APC national chairman, and was replaced by the Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Abubakar Kyari.
In a Twitter post on Monday evening, Omokri said the ruling party missed a golden opportunity to reduce the tension in the South East by not appointing the acting chairman from the region.
Omokri said part of the reason there is so much unrest in the Southeast is because the people from the region feel underrepresented in the national power structure.
He wrote: “The APC missed a golden opportunity to reduce the tension in the Southeast and bring that geopolitical zone into the mainstream by failing to replace their National Chairman with someone from the Southeast.
“Part of why there is so much unrest in the Southeast is because they feel underrepresented in the national power structure.
“The President is from the Southwest. His vice is from the Northeast. The Senate President is from the South-South, while the Speaker of the House of Representatives is from the Northwest.
“The Chief Justice of Nigeria is from the Southwest, whereas the President of the Court of Appeal is from the North Central.
“Where does that leave the Southeast? Completely naked politically at the federal level. The imbalance is suffocating.
“No zone will accept what the Southeast is expected to accept, and the APC ought to have used this vacancy to placate the Southeast and prove to them that Buhari’s ‘dot in a circle’ philosophy went away with him. What a missed opportunity!”
