Article by Dan Owegie
Deputy Senate President Ekweremadu
in a statement by his media aide, Uche Anichukwu said the attempt to assassinate
him occurred at about 10:00am between Apo Flyover and Dantata Construction
Company’s yard, close to the Old Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Headquarters
junction on his way to the National Assembly.
He claimed the suspected assassins operated in an
unmarked, tinted, brand new, white-coloured
Mercedez Benz AMG E63 and were chauffeured by a man who looked like
someone from the Middle-belt.
He said the development had
already been reported to the security agencies. What has been the outcome of
the investigations? Nigerians would want to know because this is a country
where people would arrange for their
kidnap to give certain impressions to certain people.
The story appears well
scripted but has some loopholes. For instance, the Senate President has a
police escort with guns attached to him
for his protection. Were they not in the convoy where a car made several
efforts to ram into his car? What were
the policemen with guns doing? Were they also watching the movie or were they
under instruction not to apprehend the intruders? Without being a policeman you
do not need any formal training to be able to apprehend the intruders referred
to as “assassins” in the Ekweremadu story line.
What is needed is to fire
at the tires of the intruders car to demobilise it and then easily arrest the intruders
and make them confess who sent them to assassinate the Deputy Senate President.
Did the policemen attached to Ekweremadu claim that anybody prevented them from
apprehending the suspected assassins? This gives away the alarm as a cock and
bull story that has no merit whatsoever except the commencement of a cheap
blackmail against the ruling party.
Again, to say that the
suspected assassins driver was dressed in clothes like persons from the Middle
belt presupposes that Northerners want to eliminate an Igbo man who is the
nation’s number five citizen. Again, this fabrication does not hold water
because it only seems to whip up ethnic sentiments that some Nigerians would
gullibly fall for. Interestingly, this could be read in between the lines of the
press statement of Ohanaeze Ndigbo youths.
To lend credence to this
line of reasoning, 24 hours after Ekweremadu flew the kite, his kinsmen, the
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase,
to ensure a thorough investigation into the alleged attack on the Deputy Senate
President. The President of the Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, Mazi Okechukwu
Isiguzoro, raised an alarm that “the highest Igbo political office holder is
being hunted for elimination, warning that killing of the Deputy Senate
President portends danger for the country.
According to them, any harm
on Ekweremadu amounted to a declaration of war against Ndigbo which must be
resisted at all costs. They also said
they were prepared to provide security
for their son to ensure his safety.
Haba Ekweremadu! He has positioned the youths of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to pick up the
false alarm from where he let it off. This kind of mess happens only in a
country like Nigeria. Ekweremadu is positioning as the mouth piece and leader
of Ndigbo and possibly positioning for Igbo presidency. Otherwise why would he
embark on this intellectual voyage of scripting this movie?
Who wants the life of
Ekweremadu? Why would anybody want to kill him? Since the APC government took
over from the clueless PDP administration, how many people have been
assassinated in Nigeria? Ekweremadu is only
making mountains out of mole hill. He is just on an expedition of cheap
blackmail against a party he is reaping from
without sowing.
Ekweremadu needs to be
thoroughly investigated by the Inspector General of Police. Why the sudden escalation of the agitation for Biafra few weeks into
the coming on board of the APC Federal
Government? Nigerians must keep a watch on Ekweremadu. He certainly have
something up his sleeves.
What he seems not to be
taking into account is the fact that his emergence as Deputy Senate President
is an aberration. More so, when in a
multi-ethnic, multi-religious and politically budding society
like Nigeria where power sharing among members of a wining party remains
one way of assuaging all segments of the society. What happened with the
emergence of Ekweremadu has never happened before in our political history, but
Ekweremadu is carrying on as if he does not know that he is dressed in borrowed
robes.
Granted that the election
of principal officers of the Senate is a function of members, you just cannot
rule out or undermine the party in power in determining what happens in the
Senate or House of Representatives. A
member from minority party anywhere in the world cannot assume one of
the highest positions in the house from the blast of the whistle.
He has proved himself a
desperate man. Who knows which trick he would pull next in what may come as Act
1 scene 2?
Dan Owegie
LooK After Urself Senator Ekweremadu. Stop D IBOs from Shouting 4 Biafra Country Else. People Will say U SEND Them . WorK. Whole Heartedly with Govt.
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