Apex Igbo
socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, stated that the quit
order given to Ndigbo in the north was a declaration for a new state of Nigeria
withou
t the Igbo, insisting that being an obvious violation of the
constitution, it amounted to treason.
The organisation
stated that it was worried that none of those who issued the October 1 quit
order has been arrested despite directives of the Kaduna State governor and
Inspector general of Police.
President
General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, who made assertions in Enugu
while inaugurating the planning and strategy committee of Ndigbo, said Ohanaeze
doubts seriously if there won’t be conflagrations in the Northern part of the
country at the expiration of the deadline if the quit order was not complied
with.
His words:
“Quite recently we have witnessed very provoking and unpatriotic remarks from
Arewa youths. Their remarks have grown from whispers to a national quit notice
to Igbos to leave northern Nigeria.
“While we
applaud the immediate and unequivocal condemnation of their utterances by the
Governor of Kaduna State, northern governors forum, the Middle Belt Forum and
the rather mild and equivocal condemnation from the Arewa Consultative Forum.
“The
defiance of the Arewa youths by threatening and daring the police to arrest
them, the clear incapacitation of the police and unwillingness to arrest them,
their renewed aggression following the issuance of another statement involving
an association of wider youth organisations in the north and the support
offered to them by splinter elements of the northern elders forum point to a
swell of reasonable support from a section of northern Nigeria.”
Ohanaeze
said “what remains worrisome is the incapacity of the police to make needful
arrests in this situation, pointing to double standards from our security
forces. A desire and public proclamation for a state of Biafra cannot be too
different from a quit notice, which amounts to a declaration for a new state of
Nigeria without the Igbo.”
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