Talking as visitor speaker at the 2015 Law Faculty Public Lecture of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Ekweremadu revealed that taking after the refusal of the National Assembly to consent to Adoke's solicitation to cancel the change looking to discrete the workplace of the Minister of Justice from that of the Attorney General, the previous Attorney General misdirected the prompt past president, Goodluck Jonathan into pulling back his consent after he had at first consented to it.
Ekweremadu who talked on the subject: "The legislative issues of constitution audit in multi-ethnic social orders" faulted implanted ethno-sectional hobbies and contemplations as major hindrances to Nigeria's journey for a more adequate constitution. He lamented that basic corrections, which ought to have extended Nigeria's law based experience, fortify value and equity and raise national improvement had died at the sacred places of shared suspicion and restricted tip top's hobbies took on the appearance of ethno-sectional hobbies.
Ekweremadu who was the executive of the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution lamented that whatever abandoned the last constitution change procedure did as such construct simply in light of restricted ethno-sectional hobby, not on national hobby.
As indicated by him: "It was dependably assembled that previous President Goodluck Jonathan to be sure added his mark to the Alteration Bill exhibited to him and had, in this manner consented to the Bill. On the other hand, the previous Attorney General of the Federation who was against consenting to the Bill along these lines induced him to veto it. The Presidency kept in touch with the National Assembly expressing obviously that it was giving back the Bill, yet the Bill did not go with the letter. This provoked the National Assembly to request the arrival of the first Bill sent to the President for consent in light of his claimed veto, yet the Presidency declined this solicitation, apparently on the grounds that there would have been no chance to get of concealing the certainty of the marking of the first Alteration bill by the President."
Representative Ekweremadu likewise said it was time the country grasped the truth that the South-east merits an extra state for the purpose of value in the appropriation of assets and opportunities.
Prior in his appreciated location, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Eberendu Ahaneku said the college energizes open addresses of such sort composed by the Faculty of Law with a perspective to widening and developing learning and in addition questioning topical national issues. He said that fashioning a constitution for multi-ethnic nations like Nigeria is a seriously emotive matter posturing overwhelming difficulties
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