Politics
North-Central youths employ protest over demand for Speaker position
The tussle over which zone will produce the House of Representatives Speaker for the 9th National Assembly took a different dimension on Monday as some youths in Plateau, Niger, and Nasarawa states employed protest to demand that the position be zoned to the North Central region.
The protests held separately in those states, with the protesters calling on the leadership of the APC to make sure that the North Central region was not marginalised in respect to the zoning of the National Assembly leadership positions.
In Minna, the Niger State capital, the protesting youths, who took their protest to streets and roads carrying different placards, claimed that the APC leadership wants to marginalise the North-Central.
On their placards, they had inscriptions praying President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the matter and see that the principle of Federal Character was observed.
The protesters in Plateau State, who took their protest march to the ruling party office in Jos, under the aegis of North-Central Concerned Youths, said the position of the Speaker should be zoned to the region for the sake of equity and justice.
Like their counterparts in Plateau and Niger, some youths in Nasarawa State were also seen on streets of Lafia protesting and making the same demand, that the Speaker of House of Representatives be zoned to the North Central.
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The protests are coming despite the leadership of the APC insisting that the position had been zoned to the South West, where Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is from.
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