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Former presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu has criticised the deputy speaker of the house of representatives for rejecting a petition from Nigerians based abroad.<\/p>\n

Recall that the Deputy Speaker, Wase who presided over plenary last Thursday, had rejected a petition\u00a0from the Mutual Union of the Tiv in America, saying Nigerians in the diaspora do not \u201creally know\u201d the situation in the country, and are thus are not eligible to file petitions.<\/p>\n

The petition, which was presented by Mark Gbillah, lawmaker representing Benue Gwer east\/Gwer west federal constituency, had accused the federal government of not resettling the Tiv people displaced from their ancestral land through various attacks.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued on Monday by Umar Puma, his chief press secretary, the deputy speaker denied rejecting the petition\u00a0\u2014 despite video evidence \u2014 and claimed that he only questioned the \u201clegality of the petitioners\u201d, and did not contest \u201cwhether Nigerians<\/a> in the diaspora have a right to petition the house or not\u201d.<\/p>\n

But in a post on his official Twitter handle on Tuesday, Moghalu criticised the deputy speaker\u2019s action, and said the fact that Nigerians live abroad is not an excuse to sideline them from submitting petitions to the house.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m OUTRAGED at @nassnigeria House of Representatives Dep. Speaker @HonAhmedWase saying Nigerians living abroad have no right to submit petitions to parliament. Remittances from our countrymen and women at $20 billion a year keep alive families impoverished by our politicians!\u201d Moghalu wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why we must be careful who we elect into high office. We need #electoralreform NOW, and diaspora Nigerians must have the ability to vote from abroad as is the case in Ghana and many other countries. If @cenbank can woo their remittances, we need their votes too!<\/p>\n

\u201cNigerians living and earning their living abroad is not a crime. It is their right. Their citizenship shouldn\u2019t be denigrated because of where they live. What opportunities exist for them at home if they did not move out Nigeria?<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery country has a diaspora, some at leisure (people who just want to live in foreign lands), others by force of circumstances (economic migration). You won\u2019t get a Nobel Prize for guessing where we fit in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu has criticised the deputy speaker of the house of representatives for rejecting a petition from Nigerians based abroad. 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