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How We Were Stopped From Attending Middle Belt Summit – Nwodo Attacks Buhari by 5Ebiscoo: 9:56am On Jul 17, 2018
Some members of the Southern and Middle Belt Forum, led by Chief Edwin Clark, were on Monday in Abuja stopped from traveling to Makurdi, the capital of Benue State to attend the Middle Belt summit on restructuring.

They reported that their chartered flight was stopped from flying to the Benue State capital under the pretence of security clearance.

Spokesperson for the group, who is also the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nwodo, said the elders spent about five hours at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, trying to obtain a clearance to make the journey but were refused by the Commandant of the Makurdi Airport, whose name was given as Lt. Commander A. Audu.

He regretted that the clearance was not given, accusing the Buhari-led government of running a military system.

Nwodo said, “We arrived in time for our flight today at 12 noon, the airport commandant disallowed us from flying and said we needed to go and get permission to land in Makurdi.

“We consider this fundamental infringement on our democratic rights of freedom of movement and freedom of association. There is nothing in our law precluding us from moving to wherever we like, from holding an opinion in so far as we do not breach any law in Nigeria.

“What has happened to us today expresses a lot of doom for fundamental human rights in our country, for the free exchange of ideas as unavoidable instruments of achieving growth and development of our polity.

“We deprecate the treatment that we were given today, which prevented us from physically joining our brethren in the Middle Belt in a common view which we all hold, a very patriotic view, which we think will be the only way to guarantee the future of our country.”

Nwodo, who spoke in the company of other members of the group at the Abuja residence of Clark, said that all they wanted was to show solidarity with the Middle Belt people who he said had supported the forum.

He added, “The people that you saw on the television in the Middle Belt are our brethren who showed us solidarity in other zonal summits. The fact that we were barred from showing them this solidarity is bound to hurt them.

“Through this press conference, we want to express our solidarity with them. We want them to know that we are one and the same in our views of the restructuring of the federation

“Secondly, (we need) to deprecate this new tendency. Not too long ago, the President signed into law an Executive order, which gives him the right to seize people’s assets. This is almost like a military government. And we think that this is an intrusion into the principles of separation of powers in our country.

“It is the responsibilities of the legislature to make law, of the executive to implement the law and the judiciary to interpret the law. I do not think that Section 5 of the Constitution gives the President such executive authority to make laws.”


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Re: How We Were Stopped From Attending Middle Belt Summit – Nwodo Attacks Buhari by orisa37: 10:33am On Jul 17, 2018
Religion: Why is Something Bad?
Re: How We Were Stopped From Attending Middle Belt Summit – Nwodo Attacks Buhari by Akanapiaigwe: 10:34am On Jul 17, 2018
ok now you've seen what Nnamdi Kanu saw long ago

when you're busy with our useless shameless gwavanors bringing kanu down thinking you're pleasing Buhari not knowing you're just a tool in his hand that he can use and discard anytime.

now you're feeling the heat
mr nwodo you and your shameless corrupt SE gofnors are disgrace to the entire SE and igbos

God bless Nnamdi Kanu
kiss the truth
Re: How We Were Stopped From Attending Middle Belt Summit – Nwodo Attacks Buhari by tashashiel(f): 10:36am On Jul 17, 2018
There was a country

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