Outgoing Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha says there would be an imbalance if the South-East region is sidelined from leadership positions in the 9th Assembly.

Speaking with journalists shortly after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House on Monday, Okorocha accused the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole of turning the party into a regional party.

The governor who was suspended from the APC over alleged anti-party activities said the South-East must be given the chance to produce either the Senate President or Deputy Senate President for geo-political balancing and distribution of positions.

His words: “I’ve been watching carefully what is happening in the National Assembly. It’s a very funny drama but all I ask from them is that they should consider the South-East in their calculations.

“This nation will not be properly balanced if the South-East is not carried along properly in the affairs of the National Assembly. Nobody seems to be talking about the South East.

“It looks like the South East doesn’t have a place anymore, that is wrong, politically speaking and that is not good for APC because there is going to be a bigger APC after President Buhari must have left the seat.

“My fear now is that APC might have a serious setback in 2023 because the Oshiomhole-led executive is actually turning APC into a regional minority party, which shouldn’t be because of his mistakes.

“Right now in the whole of the South-East, we don’t have an APC governor. So if there is any discussion in Nigeria now among the APC governors and President Buhari, there would be nobody from the South-East.

“This is what the APC chairman has done in the South-East. It’s a capital attempt to frustrate the effort of the South-East but I appeal to every Nigerian to support the cause of the South-East.

“They shouldn’t think about giving the South-East whatever position for giving sake. You can’t just wake up and give them any position. South-East is a key primary zone in this country and if we don’t get the number one seat, we should get the number two seat.”