South-East governors on Friday in Abuja
boycotted the inauguration of the Peoples Democratic Party’s National
Integration Committee.
The
South-East PDP governors absent at the inauguration were Martins Elechi
(Ebonyi), Theodore Orji (Abia) and Sullivan Chime (Enugu).
Also
absent was former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, who was named as the
chairman of the North-East Zonal Integration Committee of the party.
Speaking
with journalists at the PDP secretariat in Abuja where the inauguration
took place, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Prince Chibudom Nwuche, alleged the marginalisation of the South-East in
the scheme of things.
Nwuche said
the committee was inaugurated to reconcile aggrieved PDP members, but
expressed concern that some states were being marginalised.
Our
correspondent, however, learnt that the governors and other PDP members
were aggrieved because they were not listed when the party advertised
the committee members.
However, a day
after the list was published, the National Publicity Secretary of the
party, Chief Olisa Metuh, issued a statement in which he appealed to the
governors, saying the action was not meant to ridicule them.