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...For a better society... Friday, August 20 2004 Vol 17 No.30 News Editorial Politics Opinion Foreign News Fashion Metro Sports Features Columnists View from America Business Money/Market Maritime Aviation Motoring Rail/Road 2007 presidency: South East not ready � Senator NDIDI OKAFOR, Abuja SENATOR Chris Adighije (Abia Central) yesterday said the South East zone is not yet prepared to produce the next President in 2007. Adighije told a press conference in Abuja that the basic political foundation which will make the Presidency beneficial to the zone has not yet been put in place. He insisted that the necessary political machinery must be put in place before the zone aspires to the highest political seat in the land. "The basic foundation for political cohesion must be firmly established in the South-East before we can muster the machinery to secure the presidency in a beneficial manner. This must be done as a prelude to the quest for the Presidency. I am convinced that even if we secure the Presidency at this time, such a person would have been so weak and compromised that the value of such Presidency to the Igbo national may not be fully realised," he said. He insisted that lack of political cohesion in the zone has also been manifested in their handling of the seat of the Senate Presidency zoned to them. "A case in point is the Senate Presidency, which has resided in the South East for the last five years. The frequent changes and humiliation of Senate Presidents is symptomatic of the growing helplessness of the South East zone in the political equation, he further stated. He also called for equal representation, saying that "the lopsided and inequitable zonal representation in the Senate is clearly unjust and unfair from whatever angle it is looked at". He said the identified inequality be rectified as the zone has 15 senators as against the 21 from North West zone and 18 from others. Meanwhile, the Senate referred President Olusegun Obasanjo�s request to send troops to Darfur, Sudan to its committees on Defence and Foreign Affairs. The Senate also threw out a bill on "Minimum Social Responsibility" sponsored by Senators Martyns Yellowe and Dalhatu Tafida. The bill which seeks to increase the social responsibility of oil companies to the communities in the Niger Delta area, was thrown out for being in conflict with the provisions of the Niger Delta Development Commission Act, 2000. Just before the bill was rejected by the Senate, the co-sponsor of the bill, Senator Dalhatu Tafida had withdrawn. � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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