Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has described the recent stance of the Senate President over the resolutions of Southern Governors as unacceptable.
The body has said that the people that lawmakers represent would not hesitate to recall them from their seats if the voters interest is not protected.
In a statement, Secretary-General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Mazi Okechukwu Isigwuzoro, said Senate President, Ahmed Lawan’s comments on restructuring, had made him the most unpopular Senate President in the history of the Senate, who stood against collective liberty and yearnings of Nigerians to re-address the faulty system and structural imbalance of the country.
He said that Lawan and his co-travellers were obviously caught unawares by the call for change of status quo which North had benefited from the pains of the people of the south.
“The call for restructuring and ban of open grazing was bitter pills for the North to swallow, and opposition against the Southern governors’ resolutions reinforced our belief and suspicions that, the North like the manner they destroyed the reports of 2014 Constitutional Conference, will leave no stone unturned to frustrate the move to restructure Nigeria, for sinister economic reasons, unhealthy dominance and parochial policies against the south.
“Senator Lawan had squandered the goodwill of Nigerians for his comments capable of creating disaffection amongst Nigerians. And he hasn’t shown remorseful and apologetic rhetoric of his comments.”
He said that the Senate needs vibrant personalities to revamp the independence of the Senate from being an appendage of the Presidency.