A staunch chieftain of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) South-east chapter, Prince Paul Ikonne, has said that those who were mocking supporters of the party before the nomination of prominent Ndigbos into cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari, have now gone sleep.
Reacting in an interview on Wednesday to some of thennames on the list from the region, Ikonne, who was the Abia state Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate in 20011, said nominations of Okechukwu Enelamah, from Abia who he described as “a financial guru, quiet and articulate person from Abia state is Worthy of note that among many qualified people he was able to fish out this person and nominated him as minister.
“Well, generally I think the people on the Ministerial list of Mr. President are worthy and qualified Nigerians. When you talk of the nominees in the like of Dr. Ogbonaya Onu, Dr. Chris Ngige, Kayode Fayemi, Raji Fashola, Lai Muhammed, Rotimi Ameachi and others, like I have always maintained, the President knows the people he want to work with and he will keep doing that till he form his cabinet.
“Like I said the issue of zone to me is nothing but competent and ability to key into Mr. President vision for bringing a new Nigeria is the most important thing.
He said the President for nominated ‘some of the best products’ in the region, he also expressed believe that President Buhari will fulfill all the promises he made to the region during the electioneering campaign.
When asked about the situation in Southeast now, Ikonne said: “If you notice nobody is talking about marginalisation again, the PDP and other oppositions have gone to sleep because political appointees have started emerging, and more positions will come to the South-east.
“Remember I told you that Mr. President made a promise and I have known him as a person that keep to promise, he will carry the South-east along because he visited the region more than five times during campaign more than any other zone.”
He asked Nigerians at large to continue to pray for the president to be able to bring about the new Nigeria.
