Constituents move to recall Senator Abaribe
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is set to be the second Nigerian Senator to be recalled from the Senate as some members of his constituency under the aegis of Coalition of Abia South Senatorial Movement (CASSM) reportedly vowed to recall him, saying he has woefully failed them.
To show their seriousness, a Vanguard report says the group on Tuesday, in Aba, commenced the distribution of recall forms to the six council areas that make up the zone for collection of signatures.
Addressing journalists at the venue where recall forms were distributed, the leader of the group, Prince Paul Ikonne said that Senator Abaribe has “woefully failed us”.
One of the Speakers, Mr. Daniel Nwaeze, a lawyer, specifically accused Abaribe of “unleashing many attacks” on President Muhammadu Buhari, obviously implicating that attacking President Buhari or being footsoldier of Senate President Bukola Saraki is not the job the constituents voted him to go and do for them at the 8th Senate.
It would be recalled that jettisoning the representative duty his constituents sent him to do for being the Saraki’s boy was reason Kogi West initiated the move to recall Senator Dino Melaye, a process that has reached the peak with Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) saying the process would despite injuries sustained by the Senator after jumping out of police vehicle on his way to Lokoja to escape being paraded.
Nwaeze said, “We have gone far in his recall process. He is not performing. What he is doing at the National Assembly is not what we sent him to do. We never sent him there to go and insult the President even when he has not attracted any dividend of democracy to the constituency,”
He said. According to Ikonne, “we are here to commence the recall of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe because he has failed woefully, enough is enough.
“We sent him to National Assembly to get projects and make good laws but the reverse is the case. He has failed woefully. Let him come home. We have our PVCs and with our PVCs we are going to recall him. The process starts now.
“It is not a political party affair. I am of APC. We have APGA, APDA, PDP and other parties. It is about Abia South Senatorial zone. We are distributing recall forms to the six Local Government Areas that make up the district.
“The six council areas are fully represented. We will gather again in the next 14 days to compile the result and take the forms to INEC,” Ikonne said.
