Youth Coalition For A Better Nigeria, a socio-political group in Cross River State south south region of Nigeria has said that it is in support of the zoning of presidency of the 10th Senate to the South-East region of Nigeria.
The group made its position known in a statement made available to Truth Live News Thursday by the leaders of the group Barr Ekpenyong Akiba, Chairman and Ogar Ndifon, secretary.
In any case, Akiba said the highest ranking senator from the south south and southeast in the current 10th Senate is from the south east
“Because in parliamentary business, issues of hierarchy are of utmost importance, it naturally puts the south east at an advantage position. He continued.
He said there is no law that defines time limit for a region to produce president of the Senate.
Akiba, in the statement said that as very patriotic, committed and prominent stakeholders in the South South region, the group feel compelled to address a few ignorance exhibited by sponsored elements whom he described as “political busybodies,” whose time and era had since elapsed.
The group leaders also said their attention has been drawn to a miserable and primitive media attack against a revered former Senate leader, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, by a faceless and non existent group, with the name, South South Solidarity Group for Senate President 2023.
Barr Akiba, again said that the group, in a juvenile statement credited to It, concocted that the former Senate leader contested the 2019 election to become the Senate president.
He wondered how did Ndoma-Egba who had not even won election be campaigning to be become the Senate president? Describing the statement as “a lie from the pit of hell.”
While explaining how the parliamentary issues are usually resolved amongst parliamentarians and how it is usually not a regional or sectional thing. He said the south south solidarity group’s statement that the South-East region do not deserve to occupy the Senate presidency having done so before, is “a smack of gross ignorance.”
The leaders went on to say that in any case, the south south region also produced Sen. Joseph Wayas and the fact that the highest ranking senator from the south south and southeast in the current 10th Senate is from the South-East. it naturally puts the south east at an advantage position.
He however, warned the group to refrain from vomiting gibberish against a man who has gone decades ahead of all of them put together.
“We want to make it clear that any further attack on the person of distinguished Senator Victor Ndoma-Egab, SAN will be fiercely resisted. He said.