Abaribe: I will Continue to Fight for People’s Rights

Deji Elumoye

Senate Minority Leader, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, has vowed to continue to fight for the rights of the citizenry through necessary legislative interventions, as well as taking definite stand on critical national issues.

Abaribe, who spoke in Abuja yesterday while playing host to poets from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, who authored his biography titled: ‘Ala Asaala, Silhouette of Abaribe’, said he has been fighting injustice against the people since his time as the deputy governor of Abia State in 1999.

The fourth time Senator stated that his political life since the advent of the Fourth Republic has been full of coincidences in the cause of fighting for what is right.

He explained that his travails as deputy governor of Abia State in 2000 made the late Oba of Lagos, Oba Adeyinka Oyekan, to invite him to Lagos and gave him the title of Alasela, meaning successful person, “which was coined by my people from Igboland to ‘Ala Asaala’, meaning enlargement of coast.”

Abaribe added that “since then, it has been successful endeavours for me, and enlargement of coast politically, having been in the Senate since 2007 till date, and even as a Minority Leader, paving way for me to speak to Nigerians on critical issues and joining other stakeholders in putting things alright.”

According to him, the literary work used in depicting his little contributions to the Nigerian society by African Spontanists Movement (ASM) of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, will further spur him to do more for the advancement of his society and humanity generally .