Deputy Senate President petitions EU, UN and other international bodies over forgery charges

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.
In a recent report by Nation Newspaper, the
Deputy Senate President wrote the foreign
missions on Tuesday, June 28, 2016.
Other foreign missions copied in the petition
include the United Nations, European Union
Parliament, Governments of United States and
United Kingdom.
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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.