Nigeria’s immediate past Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has escaped being lynched by members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra in Nuremberg, Germany.
IPOB shared a video of the moment on its Facebook page, Radio Biafra.
It was reported that Ekweremadu, who represents, Enugu West, in the Senate was at Nürnberg for New Yam festival in the German city.
Radio Biafra wrote, “Senator Ike Ekweremadu escaped being lynched by frustrated IPOB family members in Germany. He was seriously questioned and accused of conspiring with Nigeria government in proscribing and killing of hundreds of unarmed IPOB family members in Nigeria.”
In one of the videos on the Facebook page, Police were called to restore order to the situation.
Meanwhile, in his reaction to the incident, Ekweremadu condemned the attack, adding that he had spoken to the Nigerian ambassador to German on the matter.
He said: “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 and the media 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.”