2023 Elections: Senate Not For Toddlers – Sen. Ohuabunwa

2023 Elections: Senate Not For Children – Sen. Ohuabunwa

by Victor Ndubuisi
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The upper legislative body is neither for young children or a place to pick up the rules, according to Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, who served as the senator for Abia North in the eighth Senate.

The former leader of the ECOWAS Parliament expressed sadness that Abia North had essentially lost its voice after his departure from the Senate in 2019 while speaking on a live radio program called “the Parliament” on the Broadcasting Corporation of Abia State on Friday morning.

According to him, “the Senate is not for selfish politicians,” but rather for seasoned lawmakers willing to risk all for their constituency.

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He argued that an egotistical person has no place in the Parliament because, as a representative of the people, you are required to speak for the interests of the people, regardless of your own political interests.

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In light of the escalating insecurity in the region, Senator Ohuabunwa grieved that those who represented Abia North in the National Assembly had left the people to their fate.

” How can a whole Prelate be kidnapped in Abia North and no lawmaker from the zone had the temerity to raise the motion on the floor of the national assembly? Just two days ago, a former lawmaker was shot by bandits at Umunneochi yet our representatives are all quiet”.

The Senate, according to Senator Ohuabunwa, is “a place for individuals who are experienced” in the craft of legislating; in contrast to members of the executive who can delegate their aides, lawmakers are required to carry out their responsibilities on their own.

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He expressed sadness that the cursed Arochukwu/Ohafia/Bende federal Road was left unfinished following his departure in 2019. He pledged to see to its completion.

Ohuabunwa, who claimed to have attracted the N5.2 billion road project, expressed dissatisfaction that, rather than pursuing it for unknown reasons, his successor abandoned it and pursued contentious issues without any relevance to the zone.

He added that despite the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, spending billions of Naira on the project, Abia North should be questioning why Uzuakoli Road, built on the eve of the 2019 election by a prominent son of the zone, turned into a death trap before 2023.

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The contractor, who regrettably is an Abia North son, was told to explain to the populace why the road failed in less than four years.

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The former chairman of the Senate’s Primary Health and Communicable Diseases Committee, who claimed to have dotted towns in Abia North with primary health centers while serving in the upper house, pledged to outfit them if re-elected.

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The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) senatorial candidate for the election scheduled for February 25 stated that he would return to the Senate to give Abia North’s voice and dignity back.

” I may not have money to share but I have integrity and voice to speak for my people, and I must speak. Abia North has been disgraced enough at the Senate; it’s time to correct the error of 2019″, he thundered.

The wrongful dismissal of hundreds of employees from the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike was brought up on the Senate floor by Senator Ohuabunwa, whose intervention resulted in the reinstatement of some of them.

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He also expressed sadness that” a Senator from Abia North during the debate on Electoral Act said there was no network coverage in Abia North, a claim he knew was a lie because there is full network coverage in Abia North.”

“When I return to the Senate, I will raise a motion to correct that impression and tell the world not to deny us any good thing that comes with network because Abia North has full network coverage”.

He asked registered Abia voters who had not yet picked up their Permanent Voter Cards to do so by the required deadline of January 29.

Senator Ohuabunwa asked Abia North voters to support him and all PDP candidates, expressing optimism that the upcoming elections will be fair.

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