{"id":156945,"date":"2025-03-27T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/oby-ezekwesili-sanction-nwebonyi-igbo-community-tells-senate"},"modified":"2025-04-04T13:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:57:26","slug":"oby-ezekwesili-sanction-nwebonyi-igbo-community-tells-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oby-ezekwesili-sanction-nwebonyi-igbo-community-tells-senate","title":{"rendered":"Oby Ezekwesili: \u2018Sanction Nwebonyi\u2019 \u2013 Igbo community tells Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s even more revealing that the disparagement came during the hearing of Senator Natasha Uduaghan\u2019s sexual harassment allegation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt indeed shows the lack of respect the Senate has towards women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is knowing that the upper chamber is made up of a majority of men,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p>It advocated that Senator Nwebonyi should be sanctioned and called to order over what the organisation called \u201can embarrassment to the red chamber and equally an embarrassment to the Igbo men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOby Ezekwesili has served Nigeria well and impressively. She does not deserve such foul treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are calling on the Senate to sanction the Senator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe Igbos are prepared to stage a major protest against the ill treatment of women by the Senate,\u201d it concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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. 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