Senate not for kids, dullards but seasoned parliamentarians - Senator Ohuabunwa * Decries the confusion in the new Electoral Act

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Senate not for kids, dullards but seasoned parliamentarians – Senator Ohuabunwa

* Decries the confusion in the new Electoral Act

By Steve Oko

Former Leader ECOWAS Parliament, Senator Ohuabunwa has said that the senate is not for the simpleton or dullards but seasoned and tested parliamentarians who have proven their mettle in the art of lawmaking.

Senator Ohuabunwa made the assertion when he received in audience the body of Advisers to the Governor from Abia North who came to endorse him as their sole candidate for the senatorial primaries of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, scheduled for today.

He regretted that those he referred to as “camaraderies” who see politics as their only means of survival struggle to go to the senate where they know they lack the capacity to make meaningful contributions and give their constituents quality representation.

“Senate is not for camaraderies”, he said, expressing surprise that some people who could not prove their mettle at a lower chamber are angling to represent Abia North at the upper legislative chamber.

” How can people who never moved a motion or sponsor a bill at the lower chamber want to go to the senate where they will be swallowed. It’s only in Abia North!”

Senator Ohuabunwa who decried the current ‘confusion’ arising from the new Electoral Act, urged Nigerians to ensure that those they send to the upper legislative chamber are seasoned enough in lawmaking to save the country some unnecessary embarrassments.

He regretted that all the political parties had been ambushed and put into avoidable stress as a result of the inability of the members of the 9th Assembly to properly analyse every clause of the Ammended Electoral Act before passing it into law.

The former Leader, House of Representatives, also regretted that Abia North which was once represented by highly respected senators like Gen. Ike Nwachukwu, late Uche Chukwumerije and himself, had suddenly become a laughing stock and comic relief at the ninth senate.

Senator Ohuabunwa who noted that the National Assembly Service Bill was his brain child while he was at the House of Representatives said his legislative prowess was incontrovertible.

Ohuabunwa who also sponsorsed the National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC bill, said that even his fellow senators recognised his worth in legislative matters, hence, they crowned him ” DG of Amendments”.

The former Senate Committee Chairman on Primary Health Care and Communicable Diseases, recalled how at least every political Ward and almost every community in Abia North got a Primary Health Care Centre while he was in the senate.

He explained that he was already working towards equipping all the health centres during his second tenure but regretted that some dark forces sabotaged his return bid.

Senator Ohuabunwa commended the Advisers for their proactiviness and bold move to adopt him as the sole candidate for the senatorial primaries, and promised not to betray the confidence reposed in him.

He said that Abia North who recover its lost grounds and near-political exclusion when he returns to the Senate in 2023.

The member, PDP National Executive Commited, NEC, noted that Abia North had learnt enough lesson from the ‘political mistake of 2019″, but commended the readiness of all the necessary stakeholders to correct the error in the forthcoming elections.

Speaking earlier, the Advisers said they were resolute in their determination and commitment to return him to the senate, hence his adoption as their sole candidate.

The Advisers, vowed to deploy every arsenal at their disposal to ensure his return to the red chamber in 2023.

They said they were not bothered about his emergence at the PDP primaries because “he has no competitor”, noting that their focus is on the main election which according to them, will also be a walk-over because the people of the zone have learnt from their mistake and the agony of killing ones champion.

Conveying their decision, Cordinator, Abia North body of Advisers, and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Utilities, Mr Ifeanyi Okorie, an Engineer, said their decision to endorse him was based on their conviction that his absence at the senate since 2019 had made the zone better appreciate his relevance.

He said they were resolute to make every necessary sacrifice and commitment to ensure that he not only picks the PDP ticket but successfully returns to the senate in 2023.

” We will use our time, resources and support base as leaders in our various wards and communities to ensure your return to the Senate where you rightly belong”, Okorie vowed.

Adding his voice, former Commissioner for Boundary Matters, Hon. Mascot Obike, said the PDP ticket “is Ohuabunwa’s to pick”, adding that their major focus is the main election in which he said, the people of Abia North would correct the 2019 mistake.

In her remarks, Lady Joy Dimanochie, said Senator Ohuabunwa’s absence at the senate in the past three years had sent Abia North backwards in the political equation of not only the state but the country.

She said that Abia had realised their mistake and now prepared to right the wrong.

Lady Dimanochie promised to, along with other women leaders in Abia North, mobilise the women who command the greatest voting population for Senator Ohuabunwa in the forthcoming senatorial poll.

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