Ekweremadu attacked over Operation Python Dance role – IPOB – TheNigerialawyer

The Indigenous People of Biafra has said its members attacked
former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, because of
the role played by him and others during the Operation Python Dance
saga in the South-East.

The group said Ekweremadu and others like Nnia Nwodo, David
Umahi, Okezie Ikpeazu, Rochas Okorocha, Willie Obiano and Ifeanyi
Ugwuanyi plotted to kill the IPOB dream.

A statement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma
Powerful, on behalf of the group’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu, accused
South-East leaders of plotting to assassinate Kanu, and kill the
dream of IPOB through Operation Python Dance.

“These men mentioned above instigated, financed and defended a
full-scale bloody military invasion of Biafra land they tagged
Operation Python Dance that led to the torture and untimely death
of over 600 Biafrans, 28 of which fell in my compound.

“These men sanctioned the desecration of the home of an Igbo
traditional ruler by Fulani soldiers and did not care if my father,
HRM Eze Israel Okwu Kanu, and my mother, who were home with me
during the unprovoked invasion, were killed or not. All that these
desperate Igbo politicians ever wanted was my death, the death of
IPOB, the death of our dream of freedom for all.

“In view of the Nuremberg encounter, it has become necessary for
us to refresh our memory lest it succumbs to confusion and
deliberate misinformation because most people, unlike IPOB, are in
the habit of excusing intolerable evil and wickedness.

“Every perpetrator of evil, every purveyor of iniquity, every
merchant of misery and every defender of injustice must and will be
held to account. We will on relent until justice is served,” IPOB
said.

But a prominent Igbo socio-cultural group, Igbo Bu Igbo, on
Tuesday warned members of IPOB not to push their luck.

The group gave the warning while reacting to the attack on
Ekweremadu, by members of IPOB in Nuremberg, Germany.

It described the attack on Ekweremadu as “a callous act of
ingratitude” considering that Ekweremadu was the same person who
rallied other leaders to save Nnamdi Kanu from languishing in
jail.

It said, “In Igboland, the hen does not raise its beak against
the one who gave it shelter during the rainfall.”

In a statement by the Group’s Chancellor, Dr Law Mefor, and the
Secretary General, Mazi Chidi Omeje, the IBI lamented how “the
unfortunate, unprovoked and crass attack on the senator had created
the wrong notion that the Igbo cannot conduct themselves in a
decent manner.”

It said, “We reject such a notion as that is not who we are. No
matter what the grievances of these misguided IPOB members could be
against Senator Ike Ekweremadu, resorting to bestial tendencies to
settle scores is not part of our culture.”

It called on IPOB to “desist from such actions that can be used
to justify the terrorist tag it has already been labelled with by
the Federal Government.”

“The orchestrated physical attack on Ekweremadu should not be
seen as a democratic protest, and if not condemned by good spirited
Nigerians, it will be extended even to the ordinary citizens in due
course.

“We cannot applaud barbarity under whatever guise. What is
condemnable is condemnable and we condemn that mob action in
Germany in the strongest terms possible. With the threats
subsequently issued against Igbo leaders across the board by IPOB,
they are creating a recipe for disaster,” the IBI said.

The group urged IPOB to “convert such energy and take advantage
of its reach to bring about its desired good governance in Igbo
land by actively participating in politics of the region and the
country if it so desires.”

Similarly, the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party
condemned the attack on Ekweremadu by IPOB members.

In a statement on Tuesday by the PDP BoT Chairman, Senator Walid
Jibrin, and Secretary, Senator Adolphus Wabara, it said the attack
was totally uncalled for, unacceptable and could not be
justified.

It called on the Federal Government to address the issue that
led to the attack.

It said, “Senator Ekweremadu is a Nigerian that did not deserve
this wicked treatment. We sincerely sympathise with Senator Ike
Ekweremadu and his family.”