{"id":2722,"date":"2025-03-14T08:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2025-03-14T08:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:20:40","slug":"ipu-cannot-consider-natashas-petition-jimoh-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/ipu-cannot-consider-natashas-petition-jimoh-ibrahim\/","title":{"rendered":"IPU cannot consider Natasha\u2019s petition &#8211; Jimoh Ibrahim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, Chairman of the Senate Inter-parliamentary Committee, remarked that the purported petition from the suspended Senator Natasha is \u201cdead on arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised that Nigeria, rather than Senator Natasha, is the member of the IPU.<\/p>\n<p>A petition can only be lodged against another member state by a member state.<\/p>\n<p>This implies that the IPU cannot consider petitions from individuals who are not members.<\/p>\n<p>The suspended Senator Natasha is not a member of the IPU, but Nigeria is!<br \/>\nAdditionally, the suspended Senator cannot represent the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI served as the interim president of the IPU in Geneva in 2023, and I am familiar with how the IPU operates after presiding over its proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, as Chairman of the Inter- parliamentary Committee in the Nigerian Senate, I did not approve or authorise the suspended Senator Natasha to attend the IPU on behalf of Nigeria to the Senate President.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, Chairman of the Senate Inter-parliamentary Committee, remarked that the purported petition from the suspended Senator Natasha is \u201cdead on arrival.\u201d He emphasised that Nigeria, rather than Senator Natasha, is the member of the IPU. A petition can only be lodged against another member state by a member state. This implies that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1704,859,1705,108],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-inter-parliamentary","tag-petition","tag-purported","tag-suspension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}