EkweremaduDeputy Senate President escapes assassination attempt
This was disclosed via a statement released by Ekweremadu's media aide, Uche Anichukwu on the incident.
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Tuesday, November 17, 2015, escaped a suspected assassination attempt.
This was disclosed via a statement released by Ekweremadu's media aide, Uche Anichukwu on the incident.
The statement reads in part:
“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.”
Anichukwu added that the incident had been reported to the relevant security agencies.
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