A southeast group, South East Dynamic Youths, has slammed the coordinating Minister of Well being, Idris Pate, over latest appointments of administrators in businesses and parastatals.
The group in a press launch by its co-ordinator, Tony Obiogbolu, gave the minister an ultimatum to rescind the appointments for not together with any southeasterner, calling on President Bola Tinubu to wade in.
It stated the latest appointments by Pate intentionally excluded folks from the South East, regardless of having succesful palms in all of the areas appointments have been made.
Obiogbolu within the press launch stated, “Whereas we as youths preserve discovering motive to imagine in Nigeria, with the hope that at some point it will deal with us pretty, and provides to us a way of belonging, some Nigerians have continued to decrease such a hope.
“Pate in a way that defied all logic and even sense of equity determined to nominate administrators to plenty of businesses underneath his watch and intentionally excluded worthy Igbo little children who had demonstrated sensible scholarship and professionalism of their varied fields of endeavour.
“It didn’t matter to him whether or not these individuals possessed the a lot wanted expertise or not, for Pate as a result of they have been Igbo, they have been certified for exclusion.
“We within the South East Dynamic Youths Motion is not going to settle for such and we’re giving Pate two weeks to rescind such an unique coverage or face the wrath of our youths in calculated measures.”
The group referred to as on Tinubu to intervene. It additionally drew the eye of South East governors from the All Progressives Congress, APC, and leaders of the celebration within the zone to wade in.
It stated it had submitted petitions to these it urged to intervene, together with; Governors Hope Uzodinma and Francis Nwifuru of Imo and Ebonyi States; the Deputy Nationwide Chairman, Emma Eneukwu; and the Nationwide Vice Chairman Southeast, Dr Ijeomah Arodiogbu.
