I didn’t use S/East money to buy 32 properties – Ekweremadu

The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday faulted the report that he used the money meant for the development of the South-East geopolitical zone to acquire 52 properties.

Ekweremadu in a statement by his media aide, Uche Anichukwu, alleged that the goal of those spreading rumours was to run him down.

It reads, “Office of the Deputy President of the Senate has uncovered a plot by an Enugu-based lawyer, Mr. Tagbo Ike, in consort with some political forces around a judicial officer recently sanctioned by the National Judicial Council (NJC), to malign the person of Senator Ike Ekweremadu.

“The media campaign of calumny by these conspirators and character assassins to run down the person of the Deputy President of the Senate includes the circulation of a frivolous petition to the Federal Government and its agencies.

“Mr. Tagbo, we have been reliably informed, alleged in a rather show of uncommon ignorance and unbridled mischief, that the funds meant for the development of the South East was hijacked by the Deputy President of the Senate as the political leader of the region and used to purchase 32 properties.

“Nothing can be farther from the truth. Their only goal is to run down the person of Senator Ekweremadu,”it said.