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A group under the aegis of the Concerned North Central All Progressives Congress (APC), Stakeholders Forum has thanked president Bola Tinubu for Appointing Sen George Akume as the Secretary General to the Federation (SGF).
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Tinubu appointed a former Governor of Benue State, Akume as Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
APCNCPF in a statement signed by
Comr. Ahmed Suleiman, Convener of the forum on Thursday, equally Congratulated Akume on his appointment as SGF.
The statement reads:
Your Excellency Sir, your appointment didn’t come to us as a surprised due to your political sagacity, leadership skills and public anticident over the years, indeed, this is putting a right peg in the right hole.
“As a Forum, we will continue to support you in all possible ways to preciously discharge your duty and help the President to deliver his renewed hope agenda to the Nigerian people.
“However, we humbly wish to reiterate our stand on the need for the party and the President to equitably encourage the distribution of the six (6) Major Elective Positions in the Country, which are the President, Vice President, Senate President, Deputy Senate President, Speaker and Deputy Speaker respectively to the Six (6) geopolitical zones, as enshrined in the constitution of the party under the leadership of the President who is known as a promised keeper.
“It is worthy to note that, the North Central Zone was the least considered in the life of the immediate past administration, intends of reward system, despite the zone’s constant massive support to the party, our votes are there to speak for itself.
“In the just concluded general elections, we the APC family from the North Central did not still let the party down by contributing the third highest votes of over one million seven hundred thousand votes (1,700,000) as against the votes contributed to the party by Northeast, Southsouth and Southeast zones respectively.
We truly deserved our request if equity, fairness and justice is going to be the watchdog of this administration.
The Forum requested for the appointment of an indigent or resident of FCT who is politically grounded as a Cabinet member in the yet to form Federal Executive Council for the purpose of inclusivity, but in the least of, a North Central person should be appointed as a Minister of FCT.
“Mr. President Sir, we the APC family from the North Central Zone totally believe in your leadership style and capacity as you remain the only living hero of our national political history.
” As a Forum and party men and women, we are not unmindful of the intention of the President and the party trying to form a government of national unity, but this can only be applaud if every zone is treated base on what the zone contributed to the success and progress of the party and its candidates.
Suleiman urged all the youth of the country to be patience with the government under the Leadership of Tinubu as he captain Nigeria to the promised Land.