By Okechukwu Onuegbu
The South East Coordinator, Nigeria In Safe Hands (NSH), Comrade Chukwuemeka Kennedy Nnebe, has sought intervention of the stalwarts of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and National Assembly (NAASS) members from the region to address controversy surrounding the appointments of a substantive Clerk.
Controversy had trailed denial of the appointment of Dr Chinedu Akabueze who is next in rank to the Clerk following the retirement of the former Clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed Ataba Sani and the retirement of the Deputy Clerk Alhaji Salisu A Maikassi.
Nnebe, who addressed newsmen in Awka, Anambra State capital, Tuesday, recalled that the Director of Finance at the National Assembly was asked to assume office by the National Assembly Commission even when Akabueze, a carrier National Assembly staff was supposed to take over the position.
According to him, later the Commission reverted itself by reappointing the immediate past Clerk who had earlier proceeded on retirement a development that drew the anger of some pan political pressure groups.
"A run down of the appointment of Clerk of the National Assembly has shown that the North East, North Central and North West have occupied that position as well as the South West and that has been based on ranking. But now the next in rank is from the South East and they want to change the rules of the game and our National Assembly members from the South East are there keeping Solent.
" We have been making contacts with them and top chieftains of the ruling APC from the South East over this frustrating act and non of them seem to care about it. It is only the likes of the Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu that has been fighting for the right thing to be done and we salute him for that. We are appealing to Kalu to continue to impress other colleagues from the South East to ensure that this modern day marginalization doesn't continue," he noted.
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