Governor David Umahi says the South-East deserves to be the Senate president to deepen the nation’s democracy.

Mr Umahi stated this when he addressed State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja.

According to him, having given the needed support to the President-elect Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the South-East should be compensated with the position of the Senate president.

The governor, a senator-elect for Ebonyi South senatorial district and an aspirant for the seat of Senate president stressed the need to zone the position to the South-East for equity and justice.

“I think that every region clamouring for the presidency of the Senate to be zoned to it is the right of such people. If you look at the true reflection of our society, you will agree with me that the right thing to be done by our leaders without prejudice to their rights and thinking is that the South-East deserves the number three position,” explained Mr Umahi.

The Ebonyi governor added, “This is very important, and I have always said that you can deliver somebody by the reason of the majority votes of particular regions, but you also need the cooperation of the minority people to have a holistic nation to govern.”

For inclusiveness, unity of the country, and everybody to be carried along, Mr Umahi insisted that “the South-East deserves the position and so far, nobody has been able to say this is the reason why the South-East should not be given that position, and I am pleading for that.”

According to the governor, the zone worked hard for the APC before the presidential election.

“I know what effort we made as a people for the unity of the country. I know the way we were regarded, and we understand that we are stronger while we are together, and we made vows to our people while we were campaigning for APC. We assured them that we belong to an equitable and fair Nigeria,” the governor noted.

(NAN)