Documents at the disposal of the federal authorities appear to have laid to rest agitations of Igbo marginalization commonly emanating from the South East, as the Goodluck Jonathan-led administration is said to have given no less than 35 per cent appointments to the zone.
Documents put together by a team said to have been mandated to ascertain the application of the Federal Character Principle in the appointments made under the current administration was said to have concluded that the South-East geopolitical zone had benefited 35 per cent of all appointments, while having 11 per cent of the Nigerian population.
It was also stated that zones like the North-West, North-Central and South-South scored between 25 and 35 per cent of all appointments.
The document recognized
Other positions allotted to the zone include the Special Adviser on Project Monitoring, Special Adviser, Technical on the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P); Chief of Army Staff; Executive Vice Chairman, National Communications Commission (NCC); Managing Director, Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON); Managing Director, Nigeria Sovereign Wealth Fund; ministers of Power, Labour, Aviation and Health; chairman, Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC); Director-General, Bureau for Public Procurement (BPE); Director-General, Debt Management Office (DMO); Director-General, Securities Exchange Commission (SEC); Special Adviser on National Assembly and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
The document also indicated that the South-East got a number of strategic ambassadorial postings under the administration, including postings to Canada, United Nations, India, Switzerland, Spain and Singapore, among others.
Also, the spokesman of Southern Mandate, Tito Zuokumor, on Monday, said the statement credited to the former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, which claimed that the zone was marginalised, amounted to mere grandstanding.
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