Appointments: Buhari Will Treat South-south Fairly, Says Eta

National Vice Chairman of APC, South-south Zone, Mr. Hillard Eta

Bassey Inyang in Calabar
The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) South-south Zone has stated that it was confident it would get its fare share from future appointments that would be made by President Muhammadu Buhari.

National Vice Chairman of APC, South-south Zone, Mr. Hillard Eta, stated this at the weekend in Calabar at the end of the post-election Zonal National Executive Meeting (NEC) of the party.

Eta said although

political appointments were necessary, it was not a yardstick to measure development, adding that the APC government was poised to developing the country including the south-south.

“It is too early in the day to cry wolf; I am assured that the south-south will definitely get its fair share of the appointments. But we should not delude ourselves that appointments in whatever hue is a guarantee of development,” Eta said.

He charged the party faithful in the zone to support Buhari and APC in the task of rebuilding the nation, adding that support was the only way they could negotiate their needs within the context of critical developments.

He said that the country needs the best hands to rebuild the country and urged the President to select the best brains that can deliver on the party’s electioneering promises.

Eta condemned the clamour for ethnic representation in appointments and described such agitations as retrogressive and unnecessarily overheating the polity.

The vice chairman said that zonal NEC was fully in support of the war against corruption launched by the president and called on the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop distracting the process.

He said the APC government has come to clear the mess the PDP had inflicted on Nigerians, saying that those who had looted the country in any way must be ready to face prosecution.

“We are presently suffering oftentimes unreasonable barbs from an unsettled PDP on account of Mr. President’s steely resolve to confront corruption. They would rather be allowed corruption take a bow,” Eta said.    

He said the APC was working very hard to taking over the remaining states of Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta, beginning with the forthcoming Bayelsa gubernatorial polls.

“Everyday I dream of APC governor in Akwa Ibom; Everyday I dream of APC governor in Rivers; Everyday I dream of APC governor in Delta. And in no distant time, the national chairman of our great party will be here to receive some great sons and daughters of Cross River State into the APC fold,” he said.

Eta explained that the aim of the meeting was to give critical appraisal of the party’s performance in the zone in the last election and to chart the way forward.

The APC south-south NEC meeting was attended by the party’s national executive council members and members of the board of trustees from the zone.