The aggrieved leaders are unhappy with Buhari for tolerating the outcome of National Assembly leadership election, which did not favour the region.
A source who spoke with The Bloom Gist said leaders are angry, claiming Buhari’s silence is a serious indication that the zone will not benefit from the administration despite the efforts they made during the elections.
“For the fact that the South-West played a key role in the emergence of Buhari as the President, it is expected that they would occupy a more strategic position than the post of vice president.” One of the leaders said why responding to questions by Bloom Gist Chuks Onah
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The leaders argued that the National Assembly leadership election, which eventually placed the North Central geopolitical zone as a powerful force in the country’s power equation through the emergence of former Kwara governor, Bukola Saraki, as Senate President and Yakubu Dogara from the North-East, has depicted the South-West as not only a weak power bloc in
the equation.
With the power structure now, the South-West as a region has been relegated to the background in the power structure of the country.
Some of the leaders of the region who also participated in the last National Conference argued that since the South-West does not hold any substantial position in the current power structure, the region must re-strategise to assert itself in the politics of the nation.
The group opined that the position of Vice President, which is presently held by a south westerner, does not place the region as a powerful force.
