President Goodluck Jonathan has applauded the attention his
administration is giving the Igbo, whom he said, are well represented in his
government and are being appointed to positions which no previous
administrations ever gave them. The President also said the Igbo had also
benefited from many projects completed by his government in the South-East. He
said these during this year’s World Igbo Congress Day in Huston, United States
of America. The event had held on Saturday, but a copy of the President’s speech
at the ceremony was only made available to journalists by the presidential
spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, on Thursday. President Jonathan, who said his
administration’s appointments were based on competence, equity and fairness,
noted that he would leave it to “historians” to determine whose administration
had done more for the Igbo in terms of federal appointments. The President
said, “Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, in pursuit of productivity and
excellence, we have appointed competent and capable men and women to positions
of high authority and strategic responsibility in all fields of national
endeavour. “In our dogged determination to develop our country, the Igbo are
well represented and in some of these appointments, the Igbo are having them for
the first time.
“Some have said that this government has done more in appointments
than any other in our history for the Igbo, but that is a matter for the
pundits and historians.
Punch Newspaper
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