Assassination Attemp On Ekweremadu: Ohanaeze Youths Task IGP Arase

The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has called on the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, to ensure a thorough investigation into the alleged attack on Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy Senate president.

Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy Senate president.

Vanguard reports that the OYC appealed to IGP in a statement signed by the council’s national president, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, and secretary, Okwu Nnabuike, made on Wednesday, November 18, in Umuahia.

The group raised the alarm that “the highest Igbo political office holder is being hunted for elimination” and challenged Arase to fish those behind the evil plot to kill Ekweremadu.

According to the council, killing of the deputy Senate president portends danger for the whole country.

“Should anything happen to Ekweremadu, Nigeria will not remain the same again,” the group warned.

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The Igbo youth stressed that they were prepared to provide security for the deputy Senate president to ensure his safety.

“We are ready to stake our lives to ensure the safety of Ekweremadu. If those who opposed his emergence as deputy Senate president now want to come after his life they will still fail just as they failed to stop his ascendancy,” they said.

Further in its statement, the group asked the federal government to tell Nigerians the real owners of REMITA, the company fingered for the alleged N25 billion fraud in the Treasury Single Account controversy.

On Tuesday, November 17, Ekweremadu escaped suspected assassination attempt that occured between Apo Flyover and Dantata Construction Company’s yard, close to the Old Central Bank of Nigeria headquarters junction, on his way to work.

According to Uche Anichukwu, the dep‎uty senate president’s spokesperson, the suspected assassins attempted to attack the convoy, but were blocked.

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