The senator representing Abia South senatorial district, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has responded to the Presidency who recently said he has no right to ask President Muhammadu Buhari to resign.
According to Enyinnaya, he stands by what he said and he doesn't expect to bend the knee for anyone.
He added that only God can make him bow, and if the almighty is not involved, he doesn't intend to take back his opinion.
His words, “The Igbo man doesn’t kneel for anybody except his Chi”. ‘Chi’ is an Igbo word for ‘a god’.
Previous minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, who confirmed and revealed Abaribe’s response, praised his courage and talked about how deep he loves and respects the Igbo race.
His words, “The Igbo man doesn’t kneel for anybody except his Chi”–Senator Abaribe Replies Presidency.
“I love this man and I love the Igbo. They are defiant, strong warriors and I really dig that about them. They bow to no mortal however, only to God. Such a people can't be crushed or broken”.
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Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe (born March 1, 1955) is a Nigerian politician who was elected to the Abia-South Senatorial District of Abia State in the Senate of Nigeria in April 2007. He holds the title Nwadiohanma Ngwa.
Abaribe earned his WASSCE from Government College Umuahia in 1974. He went on to the University of Benin, where he received a bachelor’s degree economics in 1979 and a master’s degree in economics in 1982. He lectured at Edo State University from 1982 until 1985.
Abaribe became Abia State’s Deputy Governor after Orji Uzor Kalu’s 1999 election to the Governorship. The state’s House of Assembly impeached the deputy governor twice in 2000 and a third time in 2003; as he was facing his third impeachment, he resigned on March 7, 2003, sending his resignation via DHL so as to have written record of it. The House of Assembly formally voted him out of office several days afterwards, in a move Abaribe called “medicine after death”. He was succeeded as deputy governor by Eric Acho Nwakanma. Abaribe ran for the governorship on the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) platform in 2003, however, lost to Kalu.