Igbos in Diospora Describe Izunazo as the Most Qualified Senate Presidential Candidate For 10th National Assembly leadership.
The Igbos in Diospora under the leadership of Engr Emma Ihenacho , has described the Imo West Senator Elect for Orlu zone, Senator Osita Izunazo as the most qualified candidate for the position of senate president of the 10th national Assembly.
This was contained in a press release signed by him , Engr Emma Ihenacho and made available to some group of journalists in Nigeria.
According to Ihenacho, Igbos sons and daughters living in the Diaspora has resolved to support fully Senator Osita Izunaso for position of the Senate President for the 10th national Assembly leadership.
The release has it that, Senator Izunaso is the most qualified candidate who is capable of employing his verse knowledge to unite and contribute his quota effectively under the renewed Hope of his Execllency, President Ahamed Bola Tinubu.
“We recognise Senator Izunaso’s past track records, which have endeared him to us above other candidates vying for the Senate President from Igbo Extractions. Should he be given the chance to be the Senate President, as a ranking Senator from the South East Zone, he will perform credible well to the chargrim of others , Because he has been tested and trusted” He asserted.
In our investigations, Senator Izunaso has also distinguished himself as humanitarian and philanthropist, who over the years, has engaged in human capital development through his Akpakpando Foundation, which has mobilized and provided support services to the less privileged, across the country.
In our opinion, supporting Senator Izunaso is a way of saying that he should continue his good work for the people of Nigeria . We believe that supporting him to be the Senate president will bring greater democratic dividends and practices in the nation.
Recall, Osita Izunaso was elected Senator for the Imo West (Orlu) constituency of Imo State, Nigeria, 2007. He is a one of the founding members of the All Progressive Congress, which made he to be the National APC Organizing secretary.
First is the very apparent fact that out of the three geopolitical zones that make up the Southern region of the country – South-West, South-South and South-East – only the southeast is yet to occupy the nation’s number one seat. As a matter of fact, the southwest is having a second shot at the presidency since the return to democratic governance in 1999.
In this regard, the Senate Presidency should be the southeast’s for the taking in the current political dispensation, given the clear disadvantages it had suffered in the nation’s political equation. But even if that is not a given, the southeast contributed sufficiently to the electoral success of the APC in the 2023 general elections to be able to stake a claim to the coveted number three seat.
Despite the so-called Peter Obi tsunami, which was strongest in the southeast, APC still made a more impressive showing in the zone than in the southsouth, judging by the number of political positions won by the party. While the APC won two governorship seats in the southeast (Imo and Ebonyi States), the party won only one governorship seat in the southsouth (Cross-River State).
Having made a case for a southeast senate presidency, no less important is the issue of the person best suited for the position from the zone. The general voice is calling the name of Senator Osita Izunazo. There is no doubt that there are other more eminently qualified senators for the office of the Senate President from the southeast. But top of the list in my own estimation is no other than Senator Osita Izunaso, representing Imo West Senatorial District, who was first elected into the Senate in 2007. An experienced and highly connected parliamentarian, he had earlier been elected to the House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007.
Izunaso obtained a BA (Hons) from the University of Jos (1989), a post-graduate degree in journalism from the University of Abuja (1998) and an MBA from the University of Calabar (2002). He had been Chief Press Secretary to a former Speaker and a former Senate President. He was also Chief Press Secretary to a former Minister of Youth and Sports from 1995 to 1997, and a former Minister of Labour and Productivity from 1998 to 1999. He was Board Chairman, National Automotive Design and Development Council, and Founder, Kpakpando Foundation for Persons with Disabilities, which he established in 2009.
He has also held very important positions in APC, which has endeared him to party faithful and chieftains across tribe and religious divides. Some of the key roles in which he has functioned with the APC include, Member, APC Merger Committee (2012-2013); APC Interim National Organising Secretary (2013-2014); Substantive APC Interim National Organising Secretary and Member of the National Working Committee (October 2014); Member, APC National Executive Committee (2014-2018); Member, APC National Caucus; Chairman, APC State Congress Committee for Yobe; Member, APC National Registration and Revalidation Committee (2020); Chairman, North-Central APC Registration and Revalidation Committee (2020); and Director, APC Presidential Campaign Council, Contact and Mobilisation, South-East (2022-2023).
Given his outstanding and verifiable record of public service, his background in law and journalism, his long-standing experience as a parliamentarian, his apparent popularity within the APC, his reputation as a consensus builder, coupled with his proven integrity and wide acceptance amongst his people, Senator Osita Izunaso remains the strongest and most suitable choice for the position of Senate President from the southeast.
Signed
Engr Emma Ihenacho
Imo Diospora Ambassador.
San Francisco California.
