Senate President Ahmad Lawan has urged former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, not to be deterred in his path of service to his people and Nigerians by the attack on him in Germany by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
This is as he described the attack on him over allegedly playing a role in the proscription of IPOB over violent activities by the Federal Government as most reprehensible and incredibly absurd.
Ekweremadu was to give a keynote address at the Second Igbo Annual Cultural Festival and Convention organised by Ndi-Igbo Germany when a mob, which identified itself as members IPOB and attacked him.
In his condemnation of the attack, Lawan said:
“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.”
While stressing the need for Ekweremadu not to be deterred, he urged the German authorities to identify those involved in the despicable act so that the law can take its course against them.
Lawan urged Nigerians to always reflect deeply and broadly before embarking on a course of action and advises the youth to ventilate whatever grievances they have along lines prescribed by the law and recommended by reason and democratic ethos.
