THE Buhari South- East Youth Movement
(BUSEYM) has aligned with the Attorney General of the Federation and
Minister of Justice, who said that Senate President Bukola Saraki and
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, are on trial and not the
National Assembly.
Specifically speaking on Ekweremadu, the group accused the Deputy Senate president of “vaulting ambition.”
It advised Ekweremadu to “go defend the allegations” levelled
against him “in a court of competent jurisdiction and leave Ndigbo and
President Muhammadu Buhari out of it.”
The group said gone were the days when people used the collective
destiny of Igbo to advance personal ambitions by playing the ethnic
card.
“Ekweremadu should not say he is being persecuted because of his
ethnicity,” stated the group, in a statement signed by its
Director-General, Nwabueze Onwuneme and National Publicity Secretary
Igwe Samuel Obinna.
“We are alarmed thatSenator Ekweremadu, in reaction to the case
against him at the Federal High Court is resorting to blame game.
“He must accept his fate because it is the ‘leadership of the Senate
that is on trial for forgery and not the Senate nor Igbo ethnic
nationality.”
The group frowned at Ekweremadu’s letters to various international
organisations and countries, including the United Kingdom and the
United States.
“If such trials emanate in those countries he wrote concerning his
‘purported persecution’ by the Nigerian government the most
appropriate thing they do in those countries is for the individual on
trial to either resign or step aside pending judgement from the
courts,” it stated.
The group accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of trying to take what it is not entitled to.
According to it, for 16 years the PDP was in power, it always
produced both the Senate President and the deputy, but now the party
wants to share power at the Senate with the APC.
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