The International Parliamentary Congress, (IPC) has appointed Nigeria’s former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, as its Chief Coordinator for Africa.
A statement in Abuja, by Ekweremadu’s media adviser, Uche Anichukwu, said the Secretary-General of the IPC and member of the Pakistani national parliament, Senator Muhammad Ali Saif conveyed the appointment to the lawmaker in a letter dated October 26, 2020.
The letter read: “We are proud to inform you that the Honourable President of the IPC has nominated your good self as Chief Coordinator Africa with immediate effect.
“IPC endeavours to promote parliamentary dialogue and oversight of Climate Change and Food Security; Human Rights; Peace, Security, Conflict Resolution and Interfaith Harmony; Trade, Investment and Development Corporation; Health Research; Standardisation, Quality Control, Human Development; and Observation of Elections across the world.
“To support IPC in achieving the noble cause, your influence, experience, and goodwill shall help cover the whole of the African region, enabling the IPC to directly partake in projects for the general welfare of African nations and to uphold democracy.”
Ekweremadu, a serving Senator and Nigeria’s sole member of the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace, the legislative arm of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, has accepted the appointment and has pledged to work for the realisation of the laudable ideals and objectives of the IPC.
“I, therefore, accept the appointment with the utmost sense of humility and appreciation, mindful of the fact that injustice, repression, poverty, hunger, environmental degradation, and weakening of democracy and its values in any part of the world equally holds severe consequences for the rest of the globe, hence we must all come together to work for the good of all,” he said.