Forgery case a deliberate ploy to tarnish Ekweremadu – PDP BoT

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, BoT,
yesterday condemned the ongoing trial of the Deputy Senate
President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, over alleged forgery of
Senate Rules as a frame-up, stressing that it was a
deliberate plot to tarnish his person.
Speaking when the BoT paid a solidarity visit to the PDP
Senate Caucus at the National Assembly Complex, leader of
the delegation and Chairman of the PDP BoT, Senator Walid
Jibril, noted that the BoT as fathers and conscience of the
party, could not sit and watch the framing-up of
Ekweremadu on trumped-up charges of forgery, apparently
for political reasons.
His words, “We are here to show solidarity and recognise the
leadership of Senator Ekweremadu, especially when we hear
stories of what is happening to him. We are here to give our
total support to him over the recent framing of him in an
alleged forgery case, because we cannot, as fathers and
conscience of the party, sit down and just watch.
“Senator Ekweremadu is a man of integrity with a high
record of performance. We want to advise strongly that
nobody should try to tarnish his personality and we are
strongly calling for fair hearing and justice in the attempt to
rope-in Senator Ekweremadu for political reasons.
“He was elected Deputy President of Senate by 48 PDP
senators with the support of APC Senators, which is a good
ingredient of our democracy. No attempt should be made to
rope him in. He should be left alone to continue the good
service to the country.”
Speaking at the meeting, the Deputy President of the Senate
expressed gratitude to the BoT members for its show of
solidarity and support, which he said showed that it was not
only the conscience of the PDP, but also of the country as
well.
He disclosed that a number of senators belonging to the All
Progressives Congress, APC, were making enquiries towards
joining the PDP on account of what he claimed as the reign
of tyranny in the ruling party.
“Today, I believe and I am speaking the minds of my
colleagues, that so many members of the National Assembly
from the other parties are prepared to return to the PDP
because they have seen that they made a mistake in the last
election by voting APC and they are also seeing that PDP
remains the biggest, greatest and the most focused party in
Nigeria,” Ekweremadu said.