EKWEREMADU ESCAPES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
The Deputy President of
the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, escaped suspected assassination attempt,
Tuesday.
The attempt occurred at
about 10:00am between Apo Flyover and Dantata Construction Company’s yard,
close to the Old Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Headquarters junction on his way
to work.
The suspected assassins
who operated in a tinted, white-coloured Mercedez Benz AMG E63 without a plate
number, were chauffeured by a long-bearded light skinned foreigner, apparently
a mercenary.
The vehicle, which was
positioned by the Apo Bridge, on noticing that the Deputy President of the
Senate’s convoy took the right turn to join the Nnamdi Azikiwe Expressway
instead, made a turn. The occupants attempted to attack the convoy, but were
blocked. The driver violently broke into the convoy and they made several
frantic attempts to attack the Senator’s official car.
When charged at by the
security operatives attached to the Deputy President of the Senate, the Benz
driver made a U-turn, and partially smashed an oncoming vehicle on the opposite
lane of the highway and escaped.
The development has
already been reported to the security agencies.