Nigeria, Aug. 19 -- Former Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, has advised South East leaders to feel free to travel abroad, saying his attack on Saturday by members of the outlawed IPOB did not represent the behaviour of the larger Igbo people in the diaspora.

Mr Ekweremadu said he had "moved on" and cared less about what authorities in Nigeria and in Germany where he was assaulted planned to do about the incident.

The senator, representing Enugu West, said he had left the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, "to his conscience."

"What we will do in this circumstance is to leave him to his conscience, the verdict of history, and possibly the repercussions of ingratitude. But I hope he won't go to the extent of attacking any of the South East le...