A Nigerian in the Diaspora has told Daily Times that former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu was attacked in Nuremberg Germany because he attended an event meant to discuss and promote Igbo causes wearing a cloth with Nigeria’s Coat of Arm.

The source who pleaded not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter, said the so called attack was initially meant to remove the cloth from him publicity, but that the intervention of his aides turned the issue to somewhat violent. Ekweremadu was attacked by persons said to be member of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) while attending a new yam festival in the German city where he was invited by the Igbo community in the Nuremberg.

It was later reported that the former Deputy Senate President was attacked by IPOB members on allegations that he and other Igbo leaders in government were romancing with the Nigerian authorities in the face of injustice meted on their people as well as the killing of farmers and destruction of their farms by herdsmen back home.

Read more: https://dailytimes.ng/revealed-real-reason-ekweremadu-was-attacked/

Ooook..

That coat of Arm dress in an Igbo event was very very insensitive. It was always going to be provoking.