Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Council have warned against any attempt to remove
deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu from office. Ekweremadu is
currently standing trial alongside senate President Bukola Saraki and
two others on allegations of forgery of senate standing order.
The Ohaneze Ndigbo youths in a statement released by the co-coordinator
Abuja and Liaison Officer, Northern Region of Ohanaeze Youth, Obasi
Ogbonnaya, said any attempt to remove Ekweremadu will fail as Nigerians
are comfortable with the current leadership of the senate.
The statement in reads in part
“Nigerians from all works of life are already comfortable with the
leadership of the Senate and those plotting to threaten the Senate
leadership especially the office of the Deputy Senate President occupied
by Senator Ike Ekweremadu should shelve such move as it will surely
fail. The South East is also comfortable with Senator Ekweremadu and his
achievements in the Senate. His Constituency in Enugu East Senatorial
zone and the entire South East are feeling his impact. We have gotten
information that some hatchet persons from the South East APC have been
busy lobbying the Senate membership and the Presidency to lend their
support to the devilish plan to threaten the office of the Senate
President. We warn such people to desist from such ill-fated moves as it
is bound to fail. The fact that there is now a APC Senator from the
South East which is however still subject to litigations at the
tribunals does not in any way make such persons to begin to try the
impossible as the South East and Nigerians will resist that. Of course
the Senate is made up of cerebral and patriotic minds that will not lend
themselves to any such act. We warn busy body persons of South East
extraction who may lend themselves to be used for any such unpatriotic
move to prepare to face the wrath of Ndigbo and Nigerians. Such persons
will be declared persona non grata in Igbo land”the statement reads.