Former Special Adviser to
immediate past Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, Hon. Charles Idahosa
has stressed that people of the South East do not deserve the equal share of
democratic dividends they are demanding from the President Muhammadu Buhari-led
Federal Government.
Idahosa made the comment while
wondering why the region which did not vote for the All Progressives Congress,
APC, should demand equal treatment with other regions which voted for Buhari in
2015.
Speaking with Vanguard, the APC
Chieftain said, “Politics is a game of numbers; politics means the sharing of
the dividends of democracy. The constitution has taken care of restructuring
because every state has a minister in the federal cabinet.
“Each local government must have
a commissioner at the state level; so, there is proper representation at all
levels. If you people need restructuring, because I heard people complain about
how appointments are shared, how do you expect the APC to give equal Boards
appointments to the South-East that voted 90 per cent for the PDP (at the last
presidential election)?
“Do you expect the President to
compensate those who did not vote for him? Is that one done anywhere in a
democracy?
“My late friend Gaddafi (Samson
Ekhabafe), who was then Attorney General in Edo State, once explained something
like this to us in 2003 in an exco meeting. Governor Lucky Igbinedion was
presiding when information came to us that there was a protest at the
Government House gates.
“So, Igbinedion asked the deputy
governor, Ogiadomhe, to go and find out what was amiss and when he (Oghiadohme)
came back, he said some people from Akoko-Edo were protesting because their
king had been deposed and detained for the past one month. And Lucky
(Igbinedion) did not even know.
“So, he turned to Gaddafi, who
was from that area, and asked him what happened. And Gaddafi said he personally
dethroned the traditional ruler because he worked against the PDP in an
election then. Lucky was angry and asked why he (Ekhabafe) did not inform him
before doing a thing like that.
“But, surprisingly, Gaddafi said
he did not know he was supposed to tell the governor. Lucky said he could not
do that and ordered that the man should be re-instated. I will never forget
that statement from Gaddafi. In a nutshell, I think people are not following
what the constitution says.
“The South-East did not vote for
the APC; so, you don’t expect them to get what others who voted for the APC are
getting.”
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ReplyDeleteSpeaking like uneducated human being,someone like you (idahosa) can never be president of a country because with the way you talk a country in your hands will collapse and that is the one the characteristics of a selfish leader,learn how to talk like an elderly man and feel other's pains.
ReplyDeleteIdahosa is an educated illiterate. Otherwise he'd have known what Biafrans are agitating for. We don't want his political appointments or that of APC. all we want is REFERENDUM.
ReplyDeleteIf at the end of the day majority say they want to stay in naija then what happens????
DeleteWho gave this type of illiterate governance. did he knows what REFERENDUM is all about? .
ReplyDeleteTHIS IDAHOSA OF A MAGGOT IS SELF-SERVING AND LOOKING FOR POLITICAL APPOINTMENT. WHERE IS EDO IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS IN NIGERIA TODAY. ARE EDOS TOTALLY HAPPY WITH THE LOP-SIDED NATURE OF THINGS IN NIGERIA TODAY? THE SOUTH EAST IS NOT ASKING FOR APPOINTMENTS. THEY ARE ASKING FOR GOOD GOVERNACE AND GOOD LEADERSHIP IN NIGERIA. LIKE IDAHOSA LIKE HIS god father OSHIOMELE WHO HAS RUN OUT OF IDEAS. SHAME ON THEM IS BUHARI THE PRESIDENT OF HAUSA FULANI ALONE? WERE THERE NOT THOUSANDS THAT EVEN VOTED FOR BUHARI IN THE EAST? NIGERIA NEEDS RESTRUCTURING. Jay 2, Abuja.
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