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The South East Caucus of the House of Representatives has been following with keen interest the latest of the serial onslaughts against the person and Office of the Deputy President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Ike Ekweremadu.

 

This latest onslaught is being carried out through trumped-up forgery charges already before the Federal Capital Territory High Court.

 

From what we have read from the papers and other media outlets, the charges being preferred against Senator Ike Ekweremadu in particular and others in general are charges that cannot be sustained in a competent court of law.

 

This, no doubt, leaves us with the strong impression that the Federal Government and its agents within the APC are hell-bent on removing Senator Ekweremadu and thereby shut out the South East from the substantive positions of the Federal Government at all cost.

 

We are aware that it s a settled matter in law that unless there is an infraction on the constitution, the executive arm and its agencies have no right whatsoever to interfere in the internal affair of the National Assembly.

 

Therefore, assuming, but without conceding, that there was indeed a case of forgery of the Senate Standing Rules, it is the duty of the Senate as an institution to investigate and effect remedies as may be necessary. It is not for the executive to intrude into the business of a separate arm of government to effect a coup.

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To this end, we are therefore calling on all well-meaning Northern elders, federal legislators, and the international community to rise up in the defence of our nascent democracy. There is currently no one of South East origin in President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘kitchen cabinet’, and the distribution of other appointments such as ministerial appointments leaves no one in doubt that this government has an incurable hatred for Ndigbo.

 

As a group, we will do everything that is lawful and within our powers to ensure that this only substantive position occupied by the South East in this administration through the support of Senators from all parts of the country, is protected.

 

We warn this government to stop this divisiveness, margilisation, exclusion, and palpable hatred for the good people of the South East. Section 42 of the 1999 Constitution is clear on the fact that a citizen of Nigeria shall not be discriminated against on grounds of ethnicity, places of origin, sex, religions, and political opinions.

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Therefore, the people of the South East, being part of this country, are entitled to the blessings of democracy, their political affiliation and voting patterns notwithstanding.

 

We demand that the Federal Government should stop forthwith all plots to unseat the Deputy President of the Senate and all treatments that present the people of South East as lesser Nigerians.

 

If anything, this All Progressives Congress administration should apply the raw political will and brutal tendencies of its security agencies towards ridding the region of marauding herdsmen who kill, rape, rob, and maim with impunity and still get away with it.

Ordinarily, we would have referred to it as another political drama to scripted and acted by elements within the rudderless All Progressives Congress (APC)- led Federal Government.

 

Signed:

For South East Caucus, House of Representatives:

Hon. Chukwuka Onyema

Deputy Minority Leader and Caucus Leader

June 21, 2016

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