By Eseoghene Emuke
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has faulted Saturday’s attack by members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) on his predecessor, Senator Ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg, Germany.
Omo-Agege described the violent attack on former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ekweremadu as not only disgraceful but a “dastardly exportation of irrationality” and international affront against the image of Igbo race and nigeria in generally.
IPOB members had violently attacked Ekweremadu while attending an Igbo Convention in Nuremberg, Germany on Saturday.
Many Nigerians including the presidency had condemned the attack.
But, Omo-Agege in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Yomi Odunuga on Sunday, condemned the incident while calling for investigation into the ‘unnecessary’ attack.
The Deputy President of the Senate, while calling on law enforcement agencies in Germany to investigate and bring to book all those involved in the vicious attack, noted that Senator Ekweremadu has contributed immensely to the development of the Igbo people.
“Senator Ekweremadu honoured the invitation of patriotic Igbos in Germany who wanted him to deliver a keynote address at the event organized to commemorate the New Yam Festival 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.
