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Oby Ezekwesili: ‘Sanction Nwebonyi’ – Igbo community tells Senate

Published on March 27, 2025 at 03:03 PM

Oby Ezekwesili: ‘Sanction Nwebonyi’ – Igbo community tells Senate

The Igbo community in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has urged the Senate to sanction Senator Onyekachi Nwebonyi over his clash with former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili.

DAILY POST recalls that the lawmaker representing Ebonyi North Senatorial District, Nwebonyi, and Ezekwesili clashed during the Senate Committee hearing of a petition filed against Senate President Godswill Akpabio on behalf of suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

In a statement issued on Thursday by Engr Ikenna Ellis-Ezenekwe, the President General of Igbo Community Association FCT, he said the apex body of all Igbos in Abuja was embarrassed by some of the words uttered by Senator Nwebonyi.

The Association said it was embarrassing to watch the Senator in the person of Nwebonyi openly disparage a woman considered an Amazon by the wide majority of Nigerians.

“It's even more revealing that the disparagement came during the hearing of Senator Natasha Uduaghan's sexual harassment allegation.

“It indeed shows the lack of respect the Senate has towards women.

“This is knowing that the upper chamber is made up of a majority of men,” the group said.

It advocated that Senator Nwebonyi should be sanctioned and called to order over what the organisation called “an embarrassment to the red chamber and equally an embarrassment to the Igbo men.

“The Senator must apologize to Oby Ezekwesili and to the general Igbo nation. We Igbos in Abuja demand that he apologize publicly or face our wrath.

“Oby Ezekwesili has served Nigeria well and impressively. She does not deserve such foul treatment.”

“We are calling on the Senate to sanction the Senator.

“We Igbos are prepared to stage a major protest against the ill treatment of women by the Senate,” it concluded.

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