Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has petitioned the European Union, US Congress and other foreign missions over his trial for allegedly forging Senate standing rules.
Other
foreign missions copied in the petition include the United Nations,
European Union Parliament, Governments of United States and United
Kingdom.
The
report further revealed that Ekweremadu was moved to petition the
foreign missions over what he described as attempt to truncate Nigeria’s
democracy and “silence him as the leader and highest ranking member of
the opposition in the country, all in the name of prosecuting an alleged
forgery case.”
Ekweremadu pointed out that he
wrote the international community, to decide whether or not the trial
was justified, or just an act of political vendetta after it might have
been perused.
The two-page petition, entitled:
“Re: Trumped up charges against the presiding officers of the 8th
Senate: Nigerian Democracy is in Grave Danger,” also had the PDP Senator
attaching copies of the court summons and other relevant documents
relating to the matter to his letter.
The Deputy
Senate President also insisted that neither his name nor that of the
president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, featured in the petition filed
by the aggrieved members of the Senate Unity Forum (SUF) or during the
investigation of the petition by the police.
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