Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has ordered the arrest of people behind the three-month quit notice given to Igbos to leave the North. In a statement signed by his spokesman, Samuel Aruwan, El-Rufai strongly condemned, “the inciting, hate speech delivered by some self-appointed ‘northern youths.” El-Rufai said, ”the Kaduna State Government has directed that its Ministry of Justice should prepare charges and prosecute the signatories and anyone complicit in arranging this egregious assault on the rights of fellow citizens.” The Governor condemned the action of the groups, and assured every…
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Biafra: Senator Shehu Sani reacts to order asking Igbos to vacate North – Daily Post Nigeria
Lawmaker representing Kaduna Central, Senator Sani Shehu, has reacted to threat issued by a Northern group that Igbos should vacate the North, saying no ethnic group has the right to eject another ethnic group in the country. Recall that the spokesperson of a Northern Coalition group, Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY, Abdulaziz Suleiman, had ordered Igbos to vacate the region in three months. Speaking yesterday, Suleiman had said the entire Northern Nigeria was done with coexisting with the Igbos and was asking that “all Igbos currently residing in any part…
Read MoreBiafra: We are not afraid of war – South East youths reply Arewa forum – Daily Post Nigeria
The founder of Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, Evang. Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko has described the eviction order by the Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY, asking the Igbos to vacate the North as “childish,” stressing that people of the South East are not afraid of war. Ugochukwu noted that rather than issue such threat, the group should write to the National Assembly and other world body to “urgently” conduct referendum so as to secure the future of the country. In a statement, he said, “The statement from a hitherto unknown northern group is…
Read MoreSouth-South not part of Biafra, IYC tells MASSOB
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt THE Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide has said that the South-South region is not part of Biafra and called on the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra to stop claiming that states in the region are among the territories of Biafra. IYC said in a statement signed by its spokesman, Mr. Henry Iyalla, and issued in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, decried a statement credited to one of MASSOB leaders, Solomon Chukwu, that the South-South region was part of the Biafran territory. Explaining that…
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