Peter Obi prays for Ekweremadu, daughter’s healing

Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has prayed for former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, in their current travail and the healing of their daughter said to need am organ transplant.

The two were on Thursday charged to court and clamped into detention in the United Kingdom.

According to the Specialist Crime Team of the Metropolitan Police in London, the lawmaker and his wife were accused of conspiracy to harvest the organs of a child, who is currently in protective custody.

The senator’s daughter is said to need an organ transplant.

Reacting to this, Obi wrote on Twitter, “My family and I are with the Ekweremadu’s over their travail. We join all men of goodwill in praying for the healing of their daughter and commit them into God’s hand for justice to be done. -PO”

Ekweremadu and his wife were arrested on Tuesday at the Heathrow Airport in London en route to Istanbul in Turkey.

The senator and his wife got legal representation and begged the court for bail, stating that their passports had been seized but the judge denied them bail and remanded them in custody till July 7, 2022.

While some Nigerians and Obi’s supporters on Twitter had celebrated Ekweremadu’s arrest by the Metropolitan Police in the UK, the former Anambra State governor chose to sypathise and pray for the family and healing of the lawmaker’s ailing daughter.