Standup9ja: Biafra, Groups Order Igbo People Out Of Northern
Nigeria Within 3 Months
A coalition of Northern groups, including the Arewa Youth
Consultative Forum, on Tuesday, gave all Igbo people currently residing in the
19 states of the North a three-month ultimatum to quit or be forced out after
the expiration of the October 1, 2017 deadline.
Speaking on behalf of the groups, the National President,
(AYCF), Yerima Shettima, at a press conference in Kaduna, also said:
“We are also
telling our brothers (northerners) out there in the South-East to get prepared
to come back home.”
The ultimatum came on the back of a successful sit-at-home
order enforced by the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on May
30, 2017 which the five South-East states complied with.
The ultimatum was handed down at a well attended press conference
held at the Arewa House, Kaduna, on Tuesday.
The text of the press conference was signed by Nastura Ashir
Sharif (Arewa Citizens Action for Change); Alhaji Shettima Yerima (Arewa Youth
Consultative Forum); Aminu Adam (Arewa Youth Development Foundation); Alfred
Solomon, (Arewa Students Forum); Abdul-Azeez Suleiman (Northern Emancipation
Network), as well as Joshua Viashman, who signed on behalf of the Northern
Youth Vanguard.
The National President of the Northern Emancipation Network,
Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, who read the text of the press conference, noted that the
Igbo had become a threat to national
unity.
He said: “With the
effective date of this declaration, which is today, Tuesday, June 6, 2017, all
Igbo currently residing in any part of northern Nigeria are, hereby, served
notice to relocate within three months and all northerners residing in the South-East
are advised likewise.
“All northern
civil societies and pressure groups are, by this declaration, mandated to
mobilise for sustained, coordinated campaigns at their respective state
Government Houses, state Houses of Assembly, local government council
secretariats and traditional palaces.
“Our first major
move shall be to reclaim, assume and assert sole ownership and control of these
landed resources currently owned, rented or in any way enjoyed by the …Igbo in
any part of northern Nigeria.”
Suleiman warned that the failure of the Igbo to heed the
relocation order, the group would mobilise the people of region against them
(Igbo).
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