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Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has advised Nigerian politicians not to be afraid to travel to any part of the world they wish to visit.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ekweremadu who arrived Abuja Monday evening to a rousing welcome by his supporters, after being attacked by suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in Nuremberg, Germany said he remain unruffled over the attack on him at the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they were just people, who were misdirected and misguided. I had the feeling they were under the influence of alcohol. They don\u2019t represent the feelings of our people. There is nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe organisers, the Igbo in Germany, have written a letter apologising for what happened. Everybody is free to go anywhere because those ones don\u2019t represent the behaviour of Nigerians abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, I have moved on. The government and authorities of Germany are free to do whatever they wish about it\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me just say that the leaders he (Kanu) was mentioning were responsible for getting him out of jail in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we will do in this circumstance is to leave him to his conscience, the verdict of history, and possibly the repercussions of ingratitude. But I hope he won\u2019t go to the extent of attacking any of the South East leaders anywhere\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, I am a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. My job is to speak out when there is injustice anywhere. We have problem in the North East. I have visited the North East. I visited the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps there. I donated money. I sent relief materials. We had problem in the South-South, I visited the creeks and saw the environmental challenges there for myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was one of the few people the late President Musa Yar\u2019Adua consulted before he decided on the issue of amnesty. I was the person, who advised him that he needed to call a meeting of the Council of State. So, he had to invite the then Attorney General to discuss that issue with me and I advised them on the constitutional implications of amnesty.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I have always spoken out on matters that concern Nigerians no matter where they come from. I believe in justice for all. It had nothing to do with IPOB\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

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