CLEO V BECOMES PRESIDENT OF UNEC SUG

Following the removal of Ekene Eze aka Ekene Finally as the president of the SUG, Vivian Ifechukwu Ezenwekwe aka Cleo V was sworn in as the President of SUG this on this day Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at Room 1 of Coscharis Lecture Hall, UNEC by the Chief Judge of SUG High Court, Justice Emmanuel Onyeabor.

The event was commenced by a prayer and afterwards a speech by the Chief Judge who adumbrated reasons why Cleo V was being sworn in as the president which included the facts that Ekene Finally was accused of gross misconducts by the Executive Council which led to the vote of no confidence passed on him by the Council and ratified by the House. He went further to state that Cleo V is not being sworn in as the acting president but rather the substantive president as Ekene Finally is no longer the president and can only challenge the occasion if he goes to court and which so far he had not done so.

After the Chief Judge had finished his speech, he invited Cleo V to the stage and handed her the written oath so as to commence the actual swearing in. However, a little hitch was experienced as neither Cleo V nor the Chief Judge was with a Bible and none could be readily found. However, the CJ improvised by using the SUG Court Registrar, Chidiogo Linda Amafili as a stand-in Bible saying “you represent the authority of the court and as such the incoming president will have to hold your hand in lieu of the Bible”.

After the oath taking, Cleo V made a short speech in which he vowed to abide by the wordings of her oath and avoid the pitfalls that led to Ekene’s removal and called on her colleagues to cooperate with her to move the wheels of SUG forward.

The Speaker of the SUG House, Chukwuemeka Ambrose spoke next. He started by quoting a Latin maxim “fiat justitia, ruat coelum” (let justice be done, though the heavens fall). He further stated “let it be known that the House did not impeach the former president, Eze Ekene but it was the Executive Council who passed a vote of no confidence on him”.

The Secretary General of SUG, Agbo Friday also spoke at length and stated that they did what they did because it was necessary and that they drew their power from the “doctrine of necessity”.

The Deputy Senate President of the UNN SUG Senate, Senator Ibeneme Emeka stated that the new SUG leadership should bear in mind that all arms of the government are equal and so none should underrate the other.

All things being equal, Cleo V’s reign will be a very short one as reports reaching Lionspot is that the school has already perfected the SUG election calendar and that the Hostel governorship elections will be coming soon followed by the executive elections which will hold on December 12 2014.

So, basically, the student population is expecting Cleo V to pull a successful SUG Week and see to the production of the UNEC Post.