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Igbo group rejects Osinbajo’s proposed parley with S/East, Northern leaders

By Tunde Thomas

The planned peace parley between political leaders from the South-Eastern part of the country, and their counterparts from the North with the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo scheduled to take place in Abuja next Thursday has been described as a charade that will not achieve the desired objective.
Making this submission in a release issued in Lagos at the weekend, Founder, Igbo Youth Movement, Evangelist Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko declared that the meeting will not address the truth about the Nigerian situation.
According to him, the meeting which is being organized following the October 1 deadline Quit Notice issued by some Arewa youths on the Igbo living in the North will achieve nothing other than to paper the cracks and postpone the evil day.
“As these leaders gather on June 22 for the meeting, the divide gets only deeper, and the anger spreads wider, while the elite club congratulates themselves for another choreographed deception successfully pulled off. But the fact is that the crack in the foundation of the country would only continue to get worse until we stop lying to ourselves’’ Ugochukwu-Uko declared.
Insisting that the military-inspired constitution on which the nation is being run can’t move Nigeria forward, the Youth leader said only a fundamental restructuring of the polity back to true federalism can save the country.
Despite the quit notice by some Arewa youth groups for the Igbo to leave the North, the Eastern Mandate Union (EMU) has expressed its determination to ensure the realisation of the Biafra Republic.
It urged Ndigbo living in northern Nigeria to make arrangements for relocation back home to avoid a repeat of the events of 1966, adding that the ultimatum is serious and should be treated as such.
The group’s position is contained in a communique made available to Saturday Sun and signed by the EMU Chancellor, Dr. Arthur Nwankwo, Secretary Muoneke Nwigwe, Director of Publicity, Bekee Osuagwu.
The group said the quit notice by the North to Ndigbo is not an accident or the action of a rascal group clamouring for relevance as it has the blessings of the northern establishment, the various denials notwithstanding
“Our resolve and determination for the independent state of Biafra is unshakeable. Biafra is not a brainwave. It is our vehicle of redemption and freedom from the Nigerian union that has brought us only misery and grief.
Biafra represents the movement of people out of oppression into the Promised Land of self-actualization. It is a constant reminder to the Nigerian state of its structural defects, which we have on numerous occasions called for its correction to no avail. We support the Biafran agitation. We thank the people of the southeast for heeding the call by IPoB on May 30th 2017 to sit at home. We are committed to Biafra unless the Nigerian State is ready NOW to subject itself to comprehensive restructuring” , the group stated.

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  1. This is the moment of truth. NDIGBO cannot afford to dither anymore. Self-determination is NOW or NEVER. we’ve made up our minds, enough is enough.

    we should not continue to allow any form of modern day slavery against our people. without restructuring this abysmal contraption called Nigeria, there’ll be nothing like election throughout the south-east and south-south come 2019. Any Igboman/woman still hesitating to relocate from northern Nigeria will have himself or herself to blame if any thing happens.

  2. Igbo youths want Nigeria restructured into six regions- Is that IYM, ECA plan with Kanu and IPOB? Republic Of Biafra is the only legitimate institution that represents Igbos- which majority Igbos firmly decided for and will defend it with Diplomacy or War. Republic Of Biafra fully accepted the Kaduna Declaration- no negotiation, no dialog. Any Biafran in northern Nigeria who do not respect the Kaduna Declaration is at his or her own risk. God Is With Us!!!

  3. There are two sides to the ultimatum given by Arewa youth. One is that the Ibos leave the north, and the other is for Northerners to leave SE. All the discussions have centred around Ibos keaving the North. Has anybody bothered to interview of find out the plans the Northerners are making to return to the north. After all northerners have permeated every part of SE including the remotest villages. They have taken over their farmlands which they have made ‘a no go area’ .
    I have read about helicopters making deliveries in remote area in some areas in the South and nobody had bothered to investigate this.
    One thing is obvious, the Northerners leaving the SE does not seem to feature in these discussions and it should.
    The Arewa youths are deluding themselves to think that only the Ibos stand to loose because they don’t seem to think that there are that many Northerners in Igbo land.

  4. Igbos must do whatever it takes to exit Nigeria now. If our brothers and sisters in Niger Delta don’t want to join us, let it be. The six SE states territory are bigger than so many nations in this world. We are industrious and hard-working. We cannot continue in a country that hates us so much and wants to exterminate us. If we miss to achieve Biafra this time, fifty years after this second try, we are doomed forever. Our children may not have the opportunity again fifty years from now. By then, they will be enslaved and Islamized. It’s now or never.

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