{"id":217882,"date":"2022-09-22T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=217882"},"modified":"2022-09-22T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T06:48:07","slug":"ekweremadu-declare-me-enugu-west-senator-lawyer-tells-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/22\/ekweremadu-declare-me-enugu-west-senator-lawyer-tells-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekweremadu: Declare me Enugu West Senator \u2013 Lawyer tells Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barr. Ogochukwu Onyema, an Enugu-based lawyer, has petitioned the Federal High Court in Enugu to declare the Enugu West Senatorial seat vacant.<\/p>\n<p>WITHIN NIGERIA reports that the seat is currently being occupied by a former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker is presently being held in detention in the United Kingdom on suspicion of charges related to alleged organ trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Onyema claimed that the seat cannot continue to be vacant owing to Ekweremadu\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Onyema is also requesting that the Federal High Court in Enugu issue an order &#8220;commanding and mandating&#8221; the PDP National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, and the PDP to &#8220;select, nominate, and forward&#8221; his name to the National Assembly &#8220;as a replacement&#8221; for Senator Ekweremadu in the lawsuit with the file number FHC\/EN\/CS\/7\/2022.<\/p>\n<p>He further prayed the court to command and mandate the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and INEC to \u201cwithdraw or revoke, as the case may be, the Certificate of Return earlier issued to the 3rd defendant (Ekweremadu) and issue a fresh Certificate of Return\u201d to him.<\/p>\n<p>Ekweremadu had at the PDP senatorial primary election, which took place at Awgu, Enugu State, on 2nd October 2018, polled 690 votes to emerge winner, defeating his closest rivals, Mr. Isaac Okah, who polled 84 votes and Chief Onyema polled a distant 61 votes to place third.<\/p>\n<p>But in an Originating Summons, Onyema wants the court to determine, among others: \u201cWhether it is the intendment and contemplation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) as amended 2018; the Senate Standing Orders 2015 as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/08\/court-to-hear-certificate-forgery-lawsuit-against-tinubu-on-september-7\/\">amended<\/a>; and the Senate Legislative Calendar 2022, that the seat of Enugu West Senatorial District in the 9th Senate will be declared vacant by default, if the Senator representing, without just cause absent from sittings of the Senate for a period amounting in the aggregate to more than one-thirds of the total number of days during which the Senate meets in any one year, which is one-thirds of 181.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether by virtue of the continuous absence of the 3rd defendant (Ekweremadu) from the Senate since 22nd day of June 2022 or days prior (when he last attended the sitting of the Senate), up till the date of adaptation of this Summons, or any other date thereafter, it could be said that the 3rd defendant is still validly representing the plaintiff (Chief Onyema) and Enugu West Senatorial District, as provided by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Senate Standing Order 2015 as amended, in Nigeria Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether going by the heinous allegations levelled against the 3rd defendant and his incarceration at the United Kingdom, Wandsworth Prison, since around 22nd day of June 2022 up till the date of adoption of this Summons, the 3rd defendant can be said to have defaulted and be away from representing the plaintiff and Enugu West Senatorial District in the House of Senate, for no just cause, as provided for in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) as amended in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether by virtue of the 3rd defendant\u2019s travails, which was not caused by the plaintiff or any of his constituents, and going by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/03\/18\/airline-owners-give-update-on-threat-to-shutdown-flight-operations\/\">provisions<\/a> of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) as amended, the Senate Standing Order 2015 as amended, it is wise and best, for the 3rd defendant to honourably agree that he has defaulted in representation, withdraw from his position, and mandating the 1st and second defendants (the Senate President and the Senate) to declare his position vacant by default, and instantly communicate same to 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th defendants (Clark to the National Assembly, Dr. Ayu, PDP, Prof. Yakubu, and INEC) for appropriate and timeous actions, of his replacement with the plaintiff, by the 5th and 6th defendants. 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