Opinion: As Ekweremadu, Author of the Doctrine of Necessity, Turns 58, By Majeed Dahiru
The man Senator Ekwerenmadu, who is easily the biggest political brand out of Nigeria east of the Niger, is made most distinguished by the fact that his long years in public service has been without the blemish of corruption or financial malfeasance. As he adds another year in life, my wishes for my dear Senator Ike Ekwerenmadu is a long life of continuous public spirited service to the people and government of Nigeria.
However, what is clearly known in the public was that a certain Senator Ike Ekwerenmadu from Enugu State, South-East Nigeria, who was also the deputy president of the Senate of Federal Republic of Nigeria at the time, was the first to draw the attention of the his colleagues to the constitutional aberration of President Yar’Adua’s prolonged absence from his duty post without notifying the National Assembly and handing over power to then Vice President Jonathan in acting capacity.
As the longest serving presiding officer in the history of Nigeria’s parliamentary democracy, having served as the seputy Senate president of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for twelve unbroken years between 2007 and 2019, Ekwerenmadu’s most enduring legacies as a legislator has been deploying his streak of legalistic ingenuity to spearhead a holistic legislative re-engineering of the military decreed 1999 Constitution into a truly “we the people” legal document.
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