Verbal Assault: Group Asks Ezekwesili To Tender Public Apology To Senator Nwaebonyi, National Assembly.
A civil society Organisation, Vanguard for Transparent Leadership and Democracy (VATLAD)has called on former minister of Education, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili to tender unreserve apology to Senator Nwaebonyi and the Nigerian Senate.
Comrade Igbini Odafe Emmanuel,National President (VATLAD) in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, wants the former world bank vice president barred from the precinct of the National Assembly if she fails to apologize .
Part of the statement reads: We have very carefully and dispassionately watched and analysed the unedited video recording of the Tuesday, March 25, 2025 proceeding of the Senate Standing Committee hearing the Petition submitted in the case of alleged sexual harassment against President of the Senate (Senator Godswill Akpabio) by Senator Natasha Uduaghan.
We have also watched the Television Interviews granted Dr Oby Ezekwesili, Senator Nwaebonyi and Mr Monday Ubani SAN, all of whom were present and active at the rowdy session of the Senate Committee hearing on that day.
All of the above reveals that indeed Dr Oby Ezekwesili was the aggressor and was unprovoked by Senator Nwaebonyi or members of the Senate Committee.
In her interview on Arise TV she voluntarily admitted that she disrespectfully ordered Senator Nwaebonyi to please shut up while he was simply addressing the Chairman of the Senate Committee requesting that he be allowed to present his defence on behalf of the President of the Senate whom he came to represent at the hearing.
Therefore Dr Oby Ezekwesili asking him to shut his mouth was an insult to the Senator and the entire Senate. She willfully disregarded and disrespected the Senate and the Senator and deliberate to bring to disrepute, the entire Senate
What is even more insulting is the fact that Dr Oby Ezekwesili went on Arise TV after the altercation to insist that she was not going to acknowledge Senator Nwaebonyi as a Senator of Nigeria by even merely mentioning his name.
In the light of the above we conclude that Dr Oby Ezekwesili behaved very badly, showed bad example to young Nigerians and willfully disregarded and disrespected the Senate and the entire National Assembly of Nigeria, as an Institution and symbol of Constitutional Democracy.
It is a fact that with the global exposure that Dr Oby Ezekwesili has, she will dare not try to behave the way she did in the Congress of the United States of America or the Legislature of any other Democratic Country.
