By CHARLES IWUOHA

The member representing Ezza South/Ikwo Federal Constituency, Ebonyi State, in the House of Representatives, Hon. Chinedu Ogah, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to include the state in the list of those nominated as career Ambassadors.

President Buhari had on Tuesday, April 12, nominated 42 ambassadors-designate, all of them career diplomats. The nomination was contained in a letter he addressed to the Senate requesting the confirmation of the nominees.

But Ogah, in a statement issued in Abakaliki on Wednesday, observed that the list does not contain any Ebonyi nominee and called for the inclusion of the state.

The parliamentarian said there was no reason his state should be excluded from the Ambassadorial list as, according to him, Ebonyi supported and voted for the President massively in the 2019 presidential election with the President defeating his closest rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, at the polls in his Ikwo Local Government Area.

He noted that there are lots of civil servants from Ebonyi State at the federal level who he said were eminently qualified to make the list of career ambassadors and urged the government to search for them and include them to ensure that the state was not left out in the ambassadorial positions.

Ogah also expressed dismay at the exclusion of Ebonyi in the National Judicial Council (NJC) appointment in which about 33 judges were appointed at the Federal Capital Territory.

He urged the federal government to always apply the principles of federal character commission in any appointment it makes to ensure equity and justice.

“Whenever appointment is to be made, principle of federal character commission should be used to give every zone sense of belonging. It promotes equity, oneness and justice,” he said.

Ogah however called on South-East to rally round President Buhari for more democracy dividends.