The opposition Labour Party has urged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari not to play down the growing restiveness in the South East by refusing to negotiate with pro-Biafra agitators.
The party said Buhari must rise to the occasion by dialoguing with the leadership of both the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
Through its National Chairman, Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, the party asked President Buhari to obey all court orders and grant the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu an unconditional release and warned that his continued detention by the Federal Government would further ignite the protests and violence by Igbo youths.
In an exclusive interview with The AUTHORITY, Abdulsalam said that since the Federal Government negotiated with the Niger Delta agitators in the past, they should accord MASSOB and IPOB the same treatment.
Abdulsalam added that the structure of the country must be revisited in order to carry every section along in the scheme of things and urged the Biafra agitators to maintain peace and seek dialogue with the Federal Government.
He said: “Why are they still keeping Kanu in detention? Buhari said that Kanu has dual passports; many Nigerians have dual passports and citizenship including those in his government. The fact of the matter which Buhari does not know is that the Igbo have every cause to fight for the actualisation of their rights.
“The Yoruba, through the defunct National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Afenifere and the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) fought and Chief Olusegun Obasanjo became president. The Niger Delta groups fought and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan became President. So the Igbo nation has the right to fight to actualise their own dreams of either to become the president of the country or otherwise. They cannot be caged, they cannot be stopped. All the economic policies of the APC and Buhari are meant to destroy the Igbo nation because they did not vote them. But they forget that the Igbo nation have the most enterprising people in Nigeria. There is no hamlet or city where you go, especially in the North without finding an Igbo who is doing his business.
“So, Buhari and the APC should understand this and carry the people along without trying to destabilise a particular and important section of this country....http://authorityngr.com/2016/01/Why-Buhari-can-t-ignore-Biafra-agitators--Labour-Party/

**grins** Dailytrust?? an hausa/fulani paper? Open businesses on a sunday? This is a feeble quota system-propaganda. These mallams should go for IT in propagandism at the yoruba-owned the nation's toilet newpaper factory. **grins**

A stitch in time........................

Of cus this won't make FP. If it is fake news, they will take it to FP.

A dictator will never take advice against his wish but will always take advice from sycophants.

The advice should be "Stop all Agitations forthwith. Stop Biafra, stop Bokoharam and stop Blood Pressure for Buhari". All hands must be on decks to Move Nigeria forward. Lest I forget, Shiites, Sunnis, High way plundering Fulani Herdsmen, goats and cattle stealing and rampaging etc should be stopped.