THE leadership of the All Progressives Congress has been urged to be guided by fairness and justice in the zoning of leadership positions in the Ninth National Assembly.
In a statement yesterday by its coordinator, Akintunde Lawal, the group noted that such nationalistic stance on fairness and equity in the distribution of resources of the people is strongly supported by the nation’s constitution as well as APC’s constitution.The statement reads: “Now that APC has won the elections, the critical issues should be how the APC will deliver to the electorates the dividends of democracy.
“As it is now, the North West has the President while the South West has the Vice President and the National Leader of the APC leaving Four Zones bare. “Nigerian Constitution 1999 Sections 14 ,3 and 4 and the APC Constitution as amended in Article 7 ,, and made this clear and doing otherwise would be courting crisis in the coming Assembly.
“In the just concluded presidential election the Northwest APC comprising seven states produced 5,995,651 representing 72.45 per cent of the votes cast; Northeast, comprising six states produced 3,238,783, votes representing 74.36 per cent; Northcentral, comprising six states produced 2,465,599 votes, representing 54.92 per cent; Southwest comprising six states produced 2,036,450 votes, representing 53.41 per cent; Southeast comprising five states produced 403, 968 votes, representing 19.
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