PRESS RELEASE........ Desperate Moves to Malign and Intimidate the Deputy President of The Senate Out Of Office

The Office of the Deputy President of the Senate wishes to bring
to the knowledge of the public some clandestine efforts by
desperate political elements to publish false and defamatory
information against the Office and person of the Deputy President
of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.


These elements are currently making desperate efforts, including
scavenging through Senate accounts and Committees he has ever
served on, with the sole aim of misrepresenting information,
maligning, and running him out of office by hook or crook or
force him to resign from office as the Deputy President of the
Senate.


The Deputy President of the Senate appreciates the principled
stance of most media houses not to be used in this business of
blackmail, falsehood, and cheap propaganda.

Meanwhile, it will interest Nigerians to know that the Office has it
on good authority that the elements behind this unscrupulous
push are the same people whose recent staunch defence of
bipartisan leadership in the legislature as rightly being consistent
with the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the presidential system
of government, and our history is in the public domain.


The Deputy President of the Senate is ever committed to
contributing his quota towards ensuring that the Federal
Government of Nigeria provides good governance that caters for
the wellbeing of the good people of Nigeria, for it remains the
common and primary calling of all of those in government,
irrespective of party affiliation.


However, the Deputy President of the Senate also remains
committed to the institution of the National Assembly and
independence of the legislature, hence he will not allow himself to
be intimidated or stampeded out of Office.

While we advise patriotic Nigerians to be on the lookout for such
misinformation and regard them as puerile propaganda that they
are, we want to assure them that just like the phantom alleged
forgery of Senate Standing Rules, this too will surely fail.

Uche Anichukwu

Special Adviser (Media) to Deputy President of the Senate
29/09/15