The lawmaker representing Ebonyi North Senatorial District, Senator Onyekachi Nwebonyi, has narrated the reason behind is reaction at the Senate Ethics Committee’s hearing.
On Tuesday, Nwebonyi had a verbal clash with former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili in Abuja as the committee began proceeding into the sexual harassment allegations involving suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central and Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
The senator berated the ex-minister for first calling him a hooligan and asking him, a serving lawmaker, to shut up.
Speaking during an interview on a television programme, Politics Today, the Senator said, “It started when she was asked to be an oath because she said she was a witness. She said, ‘no she can’t be on oath, she can’t oath.’
“As a person, I said I am willing to be sworn on oath so that I can give my own evidence. I was addressing the presiding office. She turned to me and said, ‘Will you shut up your mouth, you are a hooligan.”
Nwebonyi said regardless of what transpired, he has no regret, though he respects Ezekwesili as a woman.
