{"id":111743,"date":"2024-02-28T11:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T10:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/seast-group-berates-pate-over-appointments-in-health-ministry"},"modified":"2024-02-28T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:46:42","slug":"seast-group-berates-pate-over-appointments-in-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/seast-group-berates-pate-over-appointments-in-health-ministry","title":{"rendered":"S\u2019East group berates Pate over appointments in health ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A southeast group, South East Dynamic Youths, has slammed the coordinating Minister of Health, Idris Pate, over recent appointments of directors in agencies and parastatals.<\/p>\n<p>The group in a press release by its co-ordinator, Tony Obiogbolu, gave the minister an ultimatum to rescind the appointments for not including any southeasterner, calling on President Bola Tinubu to wade in.<\/p>\n<p>It said the recent appointments by Pate deliberately excluded people from the South East, despite having capable hands in all the areas appointments were made.<\/p>\n<p>Obiogbolu in the press release said, \u201cWhile we as youths keep finding reason to believe in Nigeria, with the hope that one day it would treat us fairly, and give to us a sense of belonging, some Nigerians have continued to diminish such a hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPate in a manner that defied all logic and even sense of fairness decided to appoint directors to a number of agencies under his watch and deliberately excluded worthy Igbo sons and daughters who had demonstrated brilliant scholarship and professionalism in their various fields of endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt did not matter to him whether these persons possessed the much needed experience or not, for Pate because they were Igbo, they were qualified for exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe in the South East Dynamic Youths Movement will not accept such and we are giving Pate two weeks to rescind such an exclusive policy or face the wrath of our youths in calculated measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group called on Tinubu to intervene. It also drew the attention of South East governors from the All Progressives Congress, APC, and leaders of the party in the zone to wade in.<\/p>\n<p>It said it had submitted petitions to those it urged to intervene, including; Governors Hope Uzodinma and Francis Nwifuru of Imo and Ebonyi States; the Deputy National Chairman, Emma Eneukwu; and the National Vice Chairman Southeast, Dr Ijeomah Arodiogbu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A southeast group, South East Dynamic Youths, has slammed the coordinating Minister of Health, Idris Pate, over recent appointments of directors in agencies and parastatals. 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