By Terfa Naswem
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu,
will on Monday in New York, the United States of America, deliver a public
lecture on constitutionalism in Africa.
The lecture entitled “Constitutionalism and Challenges of Leadership
in Africa: An Evaluation of Tested Models” is expected to x-ray the
African constitutional models in context of their origins and their
effects on leadership and development in Africa.
The cream of the diplomatic corps, business leaders, media
practitioners, students, civil society leaders, academics, and
Africans in the diaspora are expected at the event marking the 10th
anniversary of the Centre for Media and Peace Initiatives, a New
York-based international non-governmental organisation (NGO).
Senator Ekweremadu, a three-term Deputy President of the Nigerian
Senate and former Speaker of the Parliament of the Economic Community
of West African States, ECOWAS Parliament, holds a Ph.D in
Constitutional Law and has successfully steered three alterations to
the Nigerian Constitution.
He has spoken expensively at local and international fora on the
themes of democracy, especially constitution-making, federalism, and
peace building.
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