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Sunday, August 01 2004 Search : Vol 17 No.30

News Opinion Features Sports Chic Columnists Faith Personage Magazine Interview Business Week Sunday Politics Ecowas Report Family Line Foreign News ‘South-East deserves 2007 presidency slot’ LERE OJEDOKUN, Abuja CHAIRMAN of Ikeduru local government council in Imo State, Chief Samuel Anyanwu has backed calls for Igbo president in 2007, saying the South-East has been patient enough in waiting for its turn at the top position. The geo-political zone, he said, has shown firm solidarity to other areas to produce the nation’s president and 2007 is just the appropriate time to reciprocate the good gesture". Chief Anyanwu spoke to Sunday Champion in Abuja, where he had attended a two-day national seminar on national security, accountability and on the new pension scheme. It was organised for LG council chairmen by the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON). Expressing hope in the on-going negotiation by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo to allow the south-east produce the next president, he maintained that the zone boasts of eminent sons and daughters with sterling leadership qualities. "Igbo race has the human resources that can make successful world presidents in abundance. We are a patient people but this patience should not be taken to mean weakness by the rest of the country. We have helped other ethnic groups, Hausa and Yoruba, to produce presidents. It is now our turn to be helped to produce the president of Nigeria", he said. He assured that the presidential ticket was not going to be pursued in a war-like manner but insisted the zone would not be cheated in the next political formulation. Commending various economic initiatives of the federal and state governments, he promised that the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) would be well implemented in his council. He said also that any policy not properly implemented, no matter how good it was would fail, especially if such programme did not focus on the rural populace. He also hailed President Olusegun Obasanjo for appointing Prof Charles Soludo as the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), just as he asserted that the recent launching of community policing would boost national security. On transparency and accountability, Chief Anyanwu noted that central to it was good conscience by those in positions of authority.

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