Kano State
Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has said the Igbo living in the state will not
leave Kano which they have called home for decades over the quit notice given
by a
group of northern youths.
He said this
in an interview with reporters at the national secretariat of the All
Progressives Congress in Abuja, on Wednesday.
The governor
was responding to a question about the controversial ‘Kaduna declaration’
during which a group of northern youths gave the Igbo living in the North up
till October 1, 2017 to vacate the region.
Ganduje
explained that everybody resident in Kano was an indigene of the state.
According to
him, his administration has abolished the indigene/settler dichotomy in running
the affairs of the state.
Speaking
specifically about the quit notice, he said, “Nobody gave a quit notice in Kano.
Even when they heard (about it), they (Igbo) said they were not going anywhere
and we too told them that they are not going anywhere.
“So, it is
an issue that we in Kano, want to show as an example of national integration.
Therefore, in Kano we are speaking with the people and, in fact, we have even
abolished the issue of indigenes versus settlers. Everybody in Kano is an
indigene of Kano but there are some indigenes of Kano with primordial
claim which is a fact.”
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