Nigeria, Aug. 19 -- The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the attack on ex-deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Saturday in Nuremberg, Germany.

Mr Ekweremadu was seen in a short video circulated over the weekend, dragged and manhandled by a mob at a venue of the annual Igbo Cultural Festival held in Germany.

A statement signed by the party's National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, on Monday, described the act against the lawmaker as despicable.

He accused the main opposition party, PDP, to which Mr Ekweremadu belongs of being in conspiracy with the IPOB members who carried out the act against the lawmaker and, therefore, demanded an apology.

"Those ...