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| Gbajabiamila & Onyejeocha. |
The
member, representing the people of Isuikwato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency of Abia State in
the House of Representatives, Hon. Ikeiruka Onyejeocha has asked the Leader of
the House of Representatives and consensus candidate of the National Chairman
of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Hon. Femi
Gbajabiamila to make what she termed, “ due sacrifice” by giving up his
ambition to become speaker “for Nigeria to move forward.”
Onyejeocha
and Gbajabiamila who are both of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party
expected to produce the leadership of both the Senate and the House of
Representatives, having majority, and also, long standing members of the House
of Representatives, having served over 16 years in the house.
Addressing
journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, Onyejeocha urged the party to have a rethink
and zone the speakership to the south-east, a zone she claims has gotten
nothing in the sharing formula of the APC in the current dispensation.
According
to her, Femi Gbajabiamila should as leader,
“ pay the sacrifice” for Nigeria to get to the next level.
“I
respect my party Chairman and what the party has said it intends to do but I am
appealing to them, it is not yet late to withdraw their decision and include a
woman from the two geo-political zones left out in 2015,” she said.
“I
know that the leader of the house, Femi Gbajabiamila, is a good gentleman and
good leader but there is a time when any man who is a leader indeed to make
needed sacrifice and that time is now for the leader of my party in the house
of representatives.
“This
opportunity comes only once when a leader will look at himself and say, ‘it’s
not about me, it’s about Nigeria.’ I also believe that Nigeria needs healing
and somebody has to pay the sacrifice for us to move to the next level, even if
it means deciding that speakership should go to another zone.”
Onyejeocha
added that zoning the speakership to the south-east will address the “demand
for equity” from the zone, saying that: “As a woman who has distinguished
herself and contributed immensely to the development of Nigeria, the APC should
use the opportunity of my expression of interest in the position of Speaker of
the House of Representatives to fulfill its promise to Nigerians, that it would
increase women participation in the governance of the country.
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