…says micro-zoning Akpabio unconstitutional

By Fortune Eromosele, Abuja

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has rejected the All Progressives Congress, APC’s preferred candidate, Senator Godswill Akpabio as the Senate President of the 10th National Assembly.

HURIWA also warned APC against micro-zoning the Senate Presidency to Akwa Ibom Northwest Senator-elect, Godswill Akpabio, describing it as “unconstitutional.”

The group in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said, “As a preeminent and prominent good governance oriented human rights organisation sworn to fighting corruption and human rights abuses in Nigeria and on the continent, the Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), totally rejects the alleged choice of Senator Akpabio as a preferred candidate for President of the 10th Senate. On the scale of integrity and morality, he is the wrong choice.

“As Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Akpabio performed woefully in the way he administered Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. He allegedly mismanaged the NDDC in the ways he handled its affairs with alleged lack of regards for extant rules even imposing a sole administrator on the entity.

“There were a plethora of accusations of breaches of the time tested and time honoured principles of transparency and accountability which underpin the basis for a constitutional democracy in the 21st century. HURIWA says no to Senator-elect Akpabio.”