Presidency cabal plotting my arrest — Ekweremadu

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday raised alarm that “a cabal in the Presidency” is plotting his arrest through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Raising a point of order during yesterday’s plenary, Ekweremadu said an investigator of the EFCC leaked the plot through a secret letter to him.

Ekweremadu, who read the letter on the floor of the Senate, said the EFCC had fixed next Saturday for the commencement of the operation.

But the EFCC had denied the allegation.

The agency’s Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren said in a statement last night that they were not aware of any plot to set up Ekweremadu for arrest.

“If any agency is plotting to plant monies and guns in Ekweremadu’s residence, it is certainly not the EFCC as such antics are alien to the Commission,” he noted.

The EFCC said the claims by Ikeweremadu were not only strange but smacked of “a scripted propaganda campaign to distract the Commission by putting it on the defensive.”

The alleged letter said, “Distinguished senator, there is a grand plan from a cabal in the Presidency using EFCC to indict and arrest you. This cabal has mandated the EFCC chairman to carry out this evil operation within two weeks.

“The plan goes thus, on Saturday, 6th of May, the EFCC will raid an apartment under the guise of whistle blowing policy of the Federal Government with a search warrant already obtained from a magistrate’s court to search a guest house in Enugu belonging to you.”

Ekweremadu alleged that money in various foreign currencies, AK-47 and two pump action rifles would be planted in the house by the EFCC.

Meanwhile, the PDP caucus in the Senate yesterday condemned the alleged plot.

Addressing newsmen, the spokesperson of the caucus, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, said the plot was condemnable and must not be allowed.