The youth wing of the apex Igbo
socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Ohanaeze Youth Council,
has said that the All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, is behind the plot to remove Ike Ekweremadu as the deputy
senate president.
Isiguzoro said the plot to remove Ekweremadu was an affront on the Igbo nation which would not be tolerated.
He said, “Being fully aware that the
present plot is being orchestrated by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, we ask him to
re-trace his steps forthwith or we shall declare him an enemy of
Ndigbo.”
Isiguzoro, however, urged President
Muhammadu Buhari to caution Tinubu and other anti-Ekweremadu forces in
order to avoid actions that might further overheat the polity.
He
said, “We are aware that Buhari is under intense pressure to endorse
the ‘Ekweremadu must go plot.’ This is the time for the President to
prove that he belongs to nobody, Tinubu inclusive, but that he belongs
to everybody, Ndigbo inclusive.”
Also, another Igbo group, Izu-Umunna
Cultural Association, asked the APC to accept the election of Ekweremadu
as the deputy senate president as the will of God.
The association also asked the Federal
Government to relocate the Boko Haram detainees from Ekwulobia prison
facilities in the South-East because their presence had been creating
tension in the region.
According to him, the presence of the
Boko Haram detainees is like spreading the virus of terrorism to a
region not known to such a trend.
In a statement signed by its President,
Dr. Ugo Ihekuna, and Secretary-General, Chief Elvis Chukwu, the
association attributed the crisis in the senate to the handiwork of
politicians who wanted things to always go their own way.
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