Chief Eugene Odoh,
The dust over the recent appointments into the board and management of the South East Development Commission (SEDC) is yet to settle as stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Igboetiti Local Council of Enugu State, asked President Bola Tinubu to reverse to the first list of nominees.
They stated that the new list of members of the Commission did not reflect fairness and balanced representation, stressing that it is skewed against the people of Enugu North Senatorial Zone. The reaction of the party stakeholders followed comments credited to the former Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Eugene Odoh, on the reconstitution of the SEDC.
Odoh recently granted a television interview purporting to be speaking for APC stakeholders in Enugu North Senatorial District, allegedly accusing the APC leadership in the state of shortchanging the zone in the appointment into the SEDC.
But addressing a news briefing in Enugu yesterday, the leaders of APC in Igbo-Etiti, where Odoh hails from, accused him of playing to the gallery to score cheap political points.
According to them, Odoh, who was allegedly expelled from APC in 2023 after the general elections due to alleged anti-party activity, was not in any position to speak for the party at the state and local government levels.
The people who spoke through the council chairman of APC in Igbo Etiti Council, Simon Attah, expressed concern over the removal of the name of their kinsman in the reconstituted board of the SEDC, calling for justice to be given to the people of the zone.
