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We’ll resist attempt to discredit DSP, says Ohaneze Ndigbo

Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohaneze Ndigbo says it will resist any attempt to discredit Ekweremadu.

Leader of the group, Chief Nnia Nwodo, in a statement on Thursday, April 5, 2018, said it was "preposterous" for the federal government to be carrying out "unwarranted inquisition" into Ekweremadu’s life.

“The allegation that Ekweremadu, a highest ranking Igbo politician in the country embezzled public funds without any prima facie case is inappropriate,” Nwodo said.

“The idea of asking the Senator Ekweremadu to defend himself instead of his accusers showing how he fraudulently enriched himself, amounted to turning the law upside down.

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He observed that Ekweremadu was a revered Igbo son and had attracted a lot of development to his area without any previous accusation of embezzlement.

“Senator Ekweremadu is a revered Igbo son whose public image is very high and who has attracted a lot of development to his area; he has never occupied any public office where he was accused of embezzlement,” he added.

The president-general queried the system of investigation where one was tried for simply belonging to a political party “and is exonerated of an offence he committed for belonging to a political party or being in government’’.

Nwodo cited examples of former and serving military officers who had been let off the hook either through plea bargain or for just changing from one political party to another.

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He also said that a former governor of Enugu State whose property was under investigation was “now dining with the Head of State” after dumping his former party for the ruling party.

Nwodo warned that Ohaneze Ndigbo would no longer fold it arms while Igbo sons were being systematically singled out for persecution in a country they had contributed so much to build.

He observed that the cautionary statement by Ekweremadu had been and was still being echoed by many prominent Nigerians and wondered why his case would be different.

He said that it was such “selective justice and marginalization of Ndigbo that fuelled agitations by their young ones for self-determination”, adding that restructuring was a first step toward assuaging the situation.

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