EKWEREMADU, ASSAULTED, FORCED OUT FROM NDI-IGBO COMMUNITY EVENT IN GERMANY

The Senator was also seen being guided into a waiting vehicle which immediately whisked him away in a ripping cloth, while some of the protesters pelted the vehicle, and heard saying “This is Ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg Germany. People are dying on a daily basis, people are being imprisoned for nothing. We are here enjoying life…We don’t want them here,”

Penpushing further reports that, Ekweremadu later in reaction confirmed the attack in a statement, alleging that the attackers were members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), a South-East secessionist group.

The former Deputy Senate President in a statement by his Media Aide, Uche Anichukwu, claimed that  Ekweremadu was well received by the Ndi-Igbo community in Germany, adding that  things, however, went out of hand when members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) frontally denied him entry to the venue of an event to which he was invited to deliver a speech.

 “I attended the Second Annual Cultural Festival and Convention organised by Ndi-Igbo Germany in Nurnberg today where I was billed to give a keynote address along with the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, who, however, could not make it eventually’,Ekeremadu was quoted saying.

“I was given a resounding welcome by Ndigbo in Germany and everything went smoothly until some men, who identified themselves as IPOB members stormed the venue and began to complain about the killings in the South East, stressing that there would be no Igbo event at the venue’.

“I tried to engage them, but when they became unruly, I had to leave the venue. The organisers also invited the police and I was accompanied out of the venue.

‘Much as I am disappointed in their conduct, especially as I am one of the persons, who have spoken up on justice for Ndigbo, the Python Dance, judicial killings in Igbo land and elsewhere both on the floor of the Senate and in my written and personal engagements with the Presidency as well as rallied the South-East Senate Caucus to secure Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s release with Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe taking him on bail to douse tension in the South East, I nevertheless do not hold this to heart against them, for they know not what they do’.

“I have received thousands of solidarity calls and messages from well-meaning Ndigbo. I want to assure them that I am hail and hearty. I have also spoken with the Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar.”