In an Interview on Arise News earlier Today Oct 25, 2024, Senator Enyinaya Abaribe who represents Abia Southeast Joined the live session with the host talking about the federal Government on how the national issues are being treated he simply said in quote…
“Igbo’s Just Want Fairness and Equity From the FG; Treat Us Like You Are Treating Others. The Igbo ethos is against oppression. Whenever an Igbo person sees that they are not being treated fairly, they come out. Some zones have 7-9 ministers, while the Southeast has 5.”
Do to me what you do to others
Section 14 of The Nigerian Constitution …. Says run the state in a manner that does not make others feel left out ….This is what the geopolitical zone expected from the federal level government
Abaribe was elected to the national Senate in 2007 on a Peoples democratic Party (PDP) ticket; Eric Acho Wakamaof the PPA challenged the validity of the election.
Abaribe is Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Affairs (Senator Abdulaziz Usman of Jigawa-Northeast is chairman).
He is also a member of the Committees on the INEC Senate Services, and Works. In October 2007, as Ralph Uwazurike leader of the banned secessionist organization Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), was on trial for treason, Abaribe and six other southeastern senators protested at the Federal High Court in Lagos to demand his release.
Abaribe was reelected for Abia South in the April 2011 election. He is currently the chairman Senate Committee on Media and Publicity.
Abaribe was re-elected to the Nigerian 8th senate on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party in 2015 and is currently representing the people of Abia South Senatorial District in the upper chamber. On the 13 June 2019 he was appointed as the Minority leader of the Senate.
He was re-elected in 2023 Election in an election victory over other candidates with a 49,693-vote poll to win Abia South senatorial district. He was named the chairman of the Senate committee on power of the 10th senate on 8 August 2023
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