Chief Solomon Aguene, President, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Lagos, Congratulates Akpabio On Election Into Executive Committee Of Inter-Parliamentary Union, IPU

<h4>Chief Solomon Aguene<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Chief Solomon Ogbonna Aguene&comma; President&comma; Ohanaeze Ndigbo&comma; Lagos State&comma; has congratulated His Excellency&comma; Chief Godswill Akpabio&comma; President of the Senate&comma; Federal Republic of Nigeria on his election into the executive committee of Inter-Parliamentary Union&comma; IPU at the 147th general assembly in Luanda&comma; Angola&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Congratulating Akpabio&comma; Chief Solomon Aguene who is also the Chairman&comma; Board of Trustees&comma; Aguene Arts Foundation&comma; said that the appointment did not come to him as a surprise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He explained that given Akpabio’s commitment and excellent track records in Public office right from his days as a Commissioner under former governor <strong>Obong Attah<&sol;strong> in Akwa Ibom State&comma; the election into the global legislative body is well deserved&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;23022" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-23022" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-23022" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;11&sol;Tinubu-and-Akapbio-300x169&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Chief Solomon Aguene&comma; President&comma; Ohanaeze Ndigbo&comma; Lagos&comma; Congratulates Akpabio On Election Into Executive Committee Of Inter-Parliamentary Union&comma; IPU" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"169" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-23022" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>President Tinubu believes in Akpabio and supported him to be Senate President<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The Lagos Ohanaeze President and Patron&comma; African Pride of Art and Craft of Nigeria&comma; an association comprising art dealers and artistes in Nigeria&comma; noted that the leadership of IPU would soon begin to feel the positive impacts of Senator Akpabio through developmental inputs to programmes and policies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking in an exclusive interview with OpenLife&comma; Chief Aguene said&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The overwhelming votes by delegates from over 179 countries across the world for our own Senate President&comma; Godswill Akpabio&comma; to become an executive committee member of IPU did not come to me as a surprise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Akpabio is a man of integrity&period; He is a performer&period; He did very well as governor of Akwa Ibom State&period; He transformed Akwa Ibom and built legacy structures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He also performed very well as Minister of Niger Delta&period; He has done us proud being the first Nigerian to be elected into the committee since 1946&comma;&&num;8221&semi;  the renowned business man and foremost African art collector with master piece of both ancient and modern art works in his possession&comma; stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Further Chief Aguene said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; So&comma; I congratulate Akpabio&comma; once again&period; I also extend my congratulations to our President&comma; Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who supported Akpabio to become Senate President&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chief Solomon who is also the national patron of Nigerian Football Supporters club advised that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nigerians must do everything to support leaders irrespective of the political party one belongs&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chief Solomon Ogbonna was nicknamed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Man of the moment in African art collection especially the works from Nigeria origin” by Edem Duke&comma; former Minister of Culture and Tourism when he visited him at his Lekki home and saw his collection of arts works&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;23021" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-23021" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-23021" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;11&sol;IPU-2-300x211&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Chief Solomon Aguene&comma; President&comma; Ohanaeze Ndigbo&comma; Lagos&comma; Congratulates Akpabio On Election Into Executive Committee Of Inter-Parliamentary Union&comma; IPU" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"211" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-23021" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Chief Solomon  and former Culture and Tourism Minister&comma; Edem Duke<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; it would be noted that the IPU is a global organisation of national parliaments founded in 1889 that is dedicated to promoting peace through parliamentary diplomacy and dialogue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">The 2023 IPU general assembly&comma; in which Akpabio was elected&comma; deliberated on issues affecting nations across the world and considered actions to strengthen trust between people and governance structures&period;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The assembly also deliberated on how to make institutions more effective&comma; accountable and representative&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lawmakers from across the world tabled multiple interconnected geopolitical&comma; economic and environmental crises facing the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;