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Nigeria's Senate Deputy President, Ike Ekweremadu, has written a letter to world leaders over the forgery case instigated against him and other principal officers of the senate by the federal government.
In the letter, Ekweremadu called for intervention of the United Nations, Us Congress, United Kingdom, European Union Parliament and foreign missions in the issue, saying a powerful institution as the National Assembly was being ridiculed and rubbished by President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.
He said he attached "the court summons containing the trumped-up charges preferred against my person, the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, CON; and two others," to the letter.
According to him, his name and that of Bukola Saraki and others didn't appear anywhere in the document.
“I also wish to appeal to you to kindly find time to read through the annexures— petition by members of the Senate Unity Forum, statements by persons interrogated, and the police report— to see if our names appeared anywhere in these documents," he said.
He then asked world leaders to judge for themselves if the action doesn't constitute a grave danger to democracy.
“You may, thereafter, judge for yourself whether the Federal Government, acting through the Attorney-General of the Federation, has any justification whatsoever to generate our names for trial. The list of the accused persons appears to have been politically generated because you cannot by the documents attached, relate any of our names to the offence for which we are now being charged.
“Moreover, the rules and principles of fair-hearing have not been adhered to because the police have not interacted with me or the President of the Senate as at the time of writing this letter," he said.
“You may also wish to judge for yourself whether this trial orchestrated against me is not a political trial, calculated witch-hunt, barefaced intimidation, and a clear attempt to emasculate the parliament and silence me as the leader and highest ranking member of the opposition in Nigeria.
“Meanwhile, it could also be recalled that an attempt was made on my life on November 17, 2015. The Nigerian security agencies did nothing, even though the incident was duly reported.’’
Vanguard
In the letter, Ekweremadu called for intervention of the United Nations, Us Congress, United Kingdom, European Union Parliament and foreign missions in the issue, saying a powerful institution as the National Assembly was being ridiculed and rubbished by President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.
He said he attached "the court summons containing the trumped-up charges preferred against my person, the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, CON; and two others," to the letter.
According to him, his name and that of Bukola Saraki and others didn't appear anywhere in the document.
“I also wish to appeal to you to kindly find time to read through the annexures— petition by members of the Senate Unity Forum, statements by persons interrogated, and the police report— to see if our names appeared anywhere in these documents," he said.
He then asked world leaders to judge for themselves if the action doesn't constitute a grave danger to democracy.
“You may, thereafter, judge for yourself whether the Federal Government, acting through the Attorney-General of the Federation, has any justification whatsoever to generate our names for trial. The list of the accused persons appears to have been politically generated because you cannot by the documents attached, relate any of our names to the offence for which we are now being charged.
“Moreover, the rules and principles of fair-hearing have not been adhered to because the police have not interacted with me or the President of the Senate as at the time of writing this letter," he said.
“You may also wish to judge for yourself whether this trial orchestrated against me is not a political trial, calculated witch-hunt, barefaced intimidation, and a clear attempt to emasculate the parliament and silence me as the leader and highest ranking member of the opposition in Nigeria.
“Meanwhile, it could also be recalled that an attempt was made on my life on November 17, 2015. The Nigerian security agencies did nothing, even though the incident was duly reported.’’
Vanguard
