Lawan, Omo-Agege condemn attack on Ekweremadu in Germany

Senator-Ike-Ekweremadu — Sen. Ike Ekweremadu

By Kemi Yesufu

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has condemned what he described as the shameful assault on former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on Saturday in Nuremberg, Germany.

Lawan in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Ola Awoniyi further described the attack on the Enugu senator as unwarranted.

Senator Ekweremadu was to deliver a keynote address at the Second Igbo Annual Cultural Festival and Convention organised by Ndi-Igbo Germany in that city when a mob, which identified itself as members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), invaded the venue to attack him.

**President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan**

The statement read in part: “It is incredibly absurd for anybody to blame the distinguished Senator for the violent criminal activities in his home base, the purported reason cited by the mob for the bewildering attack.

“Senator Ekweremadu, like all his distinguished colleagues in the Ninth Assembly of the Senate, is concerned about the insecurity and other challenges in that area and other parts of Nigeria. Senator Ekweremadu has also been at the forefront of the patriotic efforts to find lasting solutions to the challenges.

“The barbaric attack on Senator Ekweremadu at a forum to which he was invited to contribute to charting a course for the progress and happiness of Ndigbo debase our values as civilised people. It is most reprehensible and should be condemned by all right-thinking Nigerians”.

Lawan called on the German authorities to identify those who carried out the attack in order for them to be full prosecuted.

The Senate President advised Nigerians to always reflect deeply and broadly before embarking on a course of action, even as he admonished the youth to ventilate whatever grievances they have along lines prescribed by the law and recommended by reason and democratic ethos.

Lawan urged Senator Ekweremadu not to be deterred by the incident and urged that his doesn’t turn from the path of service to his people and Nigerians in general.

…..Omo-Agege slams IPOB, says attack an exportation of irrationality

Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has also condemned IPOB’s attack on Ekweremadu.

Speaking through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Yomi Odunuga Senator Omo-Agege expressed shock over the undeserved assault and called on law enforcement agents in Germany to investigate all those involved in the vicious incident.

**Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege**

“Senator Ekweremadu honoured the invitation of patriotic Igbos in Germany who wanted him to deliver a keynote address at the New Yam Festival they organized but some aggressively discourteous elements hijacked the effort to perpetrate a disgraceful assault that seeks to deepen the portrayal of members of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) as enemies of democratic norms and values in which the majority must always have its way after the minority must have had its due say in all matters.

“What they did is not only a violent assault against the good image of the Igbo race across the world but an aggressive attack against the traditional norms of a people known to be hardworking and respectful of meaningful contributions by leaders such as Senator Ekweremadu.

“Such disappointing physical abuse also grossly disregards Senator Ekweremadu’s democratic antecedents and his longstanding commitment to the cause of his people. But, as he has said out of the usual largeness of his forgiving heart , these people know not what they do.

“Such criminal attack, along with other anti-social attempt to accuse, condemn and lynch anyone remains utterly condemnable and illegal, notwithstanding whether it takes place on Nigerian or foreign soil as it is the easiest invitation to anomie,” Senator Omo-Agege stated.

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