ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: PDP fears over Ekweremadu’s Life, demands wide range investigation

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed grave concerns over yet another attempt on the life of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.

Ekweremadu was allegedly attacked early Tuesday morning alongside members of his family by assailants, at his official residence in Apo, Abuja.

Reacting in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said:

“This latest attack raises our fears that certain forces who have been hostile to Senator Ekweremadu’s political standing are still bent on silencing him at all cost.

“The PDP draws the attention of Nigerians to the series of uninvestigated security threats around the person of Senator Ekweremadu. Nigerians could recall that on November 17, 2015, a similar attempt was made on Senator Ekweremadu’s life by some assailants on his way to work.

“Though that attack was reported to the authorities, there have been no investigations by the security agencies, no arrests have been made and no culprit has been brought to book.

“Instead, the Senator has been a subject of unrelenting harassments and attacks on his person and office since his emergence as Deputy Senate President, including the May 26, 2017 invasion of his official quarters by security agencies, purportedly in search of phantom caches of arms, and the July 24, 2018 siege of his official residence at Apo Quarters.

“These were in addition to the invasion of the Senate chamber and carting away of the mace on the day Ekweremadu presided, in an otherwise very secure Three Arms Zone.

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“The PDP family is, therefore, worried about the relentless attack on the Deputy Senate President, which we believe is part of a scheme to silence him.

“Consequently, the PDP demands an immediate wide-range probe into this particular attack as well as an assurance from the Federal Government on the safety of the Deputy Senate President, as the nation is not ready to accept any harm on his person or his family at this critical time.”

 

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