Delta state Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has condemned the attack on former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu at the 2nd Annual Igbo Cultural Festival held in Nuremberg, Germany, on Saturday.
Okowa, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifejika, said the incident was pathetic, shameful and an embarrassment to Nigeria.
He stated that Ekweremadu, the immediate past Deputy President of the Senate, had been a great patriot and defender of his people as well as the down trodden, and did not deserve the kind of ill-treatment meted out to him by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) members in Germany.
The Governor said it was pathetic and shameful that an event organised to chart the way forward for the Igbo race and Nigeria in general ended up in such a disgraceful and embarrassing manner to the country.
Okowa maintained that Nigerians were trained to respect their elders and leaders as well as people in authority, adding that he was happy that some of the culprits had been arrested.
The Governor urged the German authorities to take necessary action on the perpetrators of the heinous act and called on all Nigerians, home and abroad, to be of good behaviour wherever they found themselves as such acts of lawlessness did not bring glory to the nation.
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