Forgery trial: Enugu rallies support for Ekweremadu
Senator Ike Ekweremadu
Thousand of indigenes of Enugu West Senatorial zone, Enugu State, yesterday engaged in peaceful protest against the ongoing trial of Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, for alleged forgery, insisting that his re-election into the current position did not violate any known convention.
The protesters accused a “cabal in the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government” of orchaestrating the plot to ensure that he was removed from his present position, irrespective of being the popular choice of the lawmakers.
Ekweremadu, Senate President, Bukola Saraki among others are standing trial for allegedly forging senate rules that aided elections into their present office.
However, his constituents who gathered from the five local government councils of Awgu, Aninri, Oji River, Ezeagu and Udi; that make up Enugu West senatorial zone, deplored the development, stressing that it was a determined attempt “by a cabal to continually harass and over-run our illustrious son and representative”.
Led by several traditional rulers, lawmakers, political appointees and other notable indigenes of the zone, the placard carrying protesters marched through various streets in Awgu, headquarters of the senatorial zone to the constituency office of the member representing Oji River, Awgu and Aninri federal constituency, Toby Okechukwu, where they registered their displeasure against the ongoing trial.
The traditional ruler of Ekoli- Okpanku, Aninri council, Prof Sam Ukpabi, who read a statement on behalf of the zone, said since the re-election of Ekweremadu in June last year, a “cabal has neither hidden its hatred and disgust for him nor its declared intention to get rid of him by all means not minding that the process, which produced him was credible and transparent.”
Ukpabi said: “The ‘cabal’, which included a serving minister had boasted severally about this; we were surprised at how Ekweremadu was being dragged into a matter where a petition to the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) that did not link him with forgery.”
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Ekweremadu is the proverbial cat with nine lives. The AGF Malami led cabal should ask Sullivan Chime how Ekweremadu was able to outfoxed a two term siting governor and return back to Senate against all odds. He virtually hijacked the PDP structure in the state at the peak of their fights for Enugu West Senatorial ticket. They should discover unexplained political currents that led to unparalleled emergence of IKEOHA Ndigbo as DSP in this 8th Senate, even when APC never thought of it. This recent onslaught against God’s favoured Ekweremadu, is dead on arrival.
The more or less semi-literate Enugu constituents are at liberty to demonstrate & ventilate every iota of truancy in their blood streams,but of certainty is that they will only have their say,the judiciary already has its way.The trial has commenced and continue it shall!
“Stealing of palm oil is stealing”, says Mr Agu, my primary school teacher from Udi. Bro Ekweremadu, who hails from the same zone as my venerable teacher, should have known something about that basic fact of Igbo impeccable morality. I may be mistaken if Mr Ekweremadu was born and raised in Enugu or some township, with no touch with his Mpu roots, who knows. As a possible last resort, I suggest we appeal to Rev Father Ejike Mbaka who has access to PMB and the Holy Spirit. O di na njo, a choba Dibia, says the adage (We resort to the Dibia in dire situations). Cheers!
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