No going back on deadline for Igbo, say northern youths

By Saxone Akhaine, Abdulganiu Alabi (Kaduna) and Muyiwa Adeyemi (Ibadan) | 20 June 2017 | 4:30 am
Nigeria’s acting president Yemi Osinbajo

• Urge Osinbajo to allow creation of Biafra nation
• Restate call for referendum on exit of easterners
• U.S. committed to Nigeria’s unity, declares envoy

The coalition of northern youth groups insisted yesterday that Igbo residing in their region must leave on October 1, 2017.The groups, including the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) urged the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo to allow the emergence of Biafran State from Nigeria.
The position of the northern youths indicates that there is no easy solution to the crisis over the eviction notice despite the assurances by the Federal Government and some leaders.
One of the leaders of the coalition and National President of AYCF, Alhaji Shettima Yerima, confirmed on phone that the youths had sent a letter to Osinbajo on their position.In the open letter signed by five of the leaders of the groups, the coalition urged the acting president to facilitate an easy exit for the Igbo to be allowed to have their dream country, Biafra. This, the northern group said should not be through a violent means but a peaceful manner through a referendum.
Those who signed the letter include, Amb. Shettima Yerima (AYCF); Joshua Viashman (Northern Youth Vanguard); Aminu Adam (Arewa Youth Development Foundation); Abdul-Azeez Suleiman (Northern Emancipation Network) and Nastura Ashir Sharif (Arewa Citizens Action for Change).
According to them, the acting president should take steps to facilitate the actualisation of the Biafran nation in line with the principle of self-determination as an integral part of contemporary customary international law.
They said their concern to allow the Igbo have their way was based on the fact that “the Biafrans have confessed to arming themselves for a violent breakup, we feel that it is risky for the rest of the country particularly the north to go on pretending that it is safe for us to co-habit with the Igbo given how deeply they are entrenched in our societies.” The northern youths added that it was better for the Igbo to go without bloodletting.
The groups further argued that as the Igbo agitations persisted and assumed threatening dimensions, “we submit that there is need to ensure that they are given the opportunity to exercise the right to self-determination as entrenched under the aforementioned international statutes to which Nigeria is a signatory.”
The Arewa youths, who said they were not waging war or calling anyone to violence, added: “We nevertheless are also not willing to continue tolerating the malicious campaign and threats of war that the Igbo have continued to wage against us. We also cannot afford to continue giving the keys to our cities to a people whose utterances, plans and arrangements are clearly geared towards war and anarchy.
“We therefore demand that the only enduring solution to this scourge that is being visited on the nation is complete separation of the states presently agitating for Biafra from the Federal Republic of Nigeria through a peaceful political process by taking steps to facilitate the actualisation of the Biafran nation.
“The principle of self-determination has, since World War II become a part of the United Nations Charter which states in Article 1(2), that one of the purposes of the UN is ‘to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.’
“We submit that this protocol envisages that people of any nation have the right to self-determination, and although the charter did not categorically impose direct legal obligations on member states, it implies that member states allow agitating or minority groups to self-govern as much as possible.”
According to the coalition, the Igbo manifested their hatred for Nigeria’s unity barely five years after the country’s independence “when on January 15, 1966, their army officers carried out the first-ever mutiny that marked the beginning of a series of crises which have profoundly altered the course of Nigeria’s history.”
They noted that even in recent times, the agitation for the Igbo to have the Republic of Biafra heightened with the activities of Nnamdi Kanu’s Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPoB) and were never opposed by the majority of the Igbo.
“Kanu and IPoB have declared full allegiance to a Republic of Biafra and continued to preach hatred and war virtually every day, not for once did any Igbo leader call them to order. Instead, many of the leaders, including Ike Ekweremadu, the Deputy Senate President, the most senior elected Igbo, pays Kanu courtesy calls to prove that he is speaking for the entire Igbo.
“Even the latest statement by the South-East Governors Forum signed by Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State in a response to the Northern reaction, did not condemn Kanu.”
While giving the acting president the assurance that no Igbo would be harmed in the region, the coalition insisted that Igbo be allowed to have their Biafra Republic without a drop of blood.
Meanwhile, the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Stuart Symington, has said that his country would continue to work towards the promotion of the unity of Nigeria, where he said the strength of the world’s most populous black nation lies.
The envoy, who led top officials of the embassy on a working visit to the office of the Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, in Ibadan, yesterday, noted the U.S. recognised the strategic importance of Nigeria in Africa.
He said that his visit was in furtherance of his country’s vision and mission to explore new frontiers of partnership for development with African countries, which, he said, informed his decision to tour every part of the country.

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Better decide that referendum once and for all!

They should be arrested

It has happened. I knew it will get to this. As kids one of my friend always. Threatened his parents with declaring himself as orphan, disowning his parents and go join Islam. His dad was an elder in the catholic church. He did this for years and got away with it becouse his mother was too soft and would prevailed over his father to do my friends wishes. The very fateful day the tables turned and his father lost his nerve, it took the Bishop and very many Reverend Fathers to. allow Joshua ever step his legs in his father's house again and be called a child. His Dad stopped going to church just that people don't even see him and beg him. The Dad got to a point where he filled to divorce Josh's. Mum because of the matter. Empty threat fades when real threats set in. Arewa youth are not even saying violence they are begging the VP to quickly facilitate the exit before. Buhari their own brother comes and start preaching oneness. This is serious.

sarrki:
They should be arrested

Can someone be arrested for calling for referendum?

Ok

NothingDoMe:
Can someone be arrested for calling for referendum?

You mean by threatening a particular tribe to leave the north ?

AREWA TOUTS

It's time they arrest these stubborn arewa crooks. They are becoming nuisance.

sarrki:



You mean by threatening a particular tribe to leave the north ?

Thats not a referendum na. Last I checked they've modified their statement and called for a referendum.

Except they are just using that as smoke screen

sarrki:
They should be arrested

why? Is that not what they have been clamoring for?

I dont care

Jeffboi:
Because buhari is dead, that's why they're saying all this things




They want the igbos to go because anytime a northerner becomes president sickness of different kind will follow him.

Maybe it's the IBO's that's sending it

yes it's IBO syndrome (I Before Others) very selfish set of haters.

A smart lawyer has edited the criminal document arewa youth used to threaten Igbos , they have written a new letter to Ag president Osinbajo without threats and deadlines!!!! grin grin. I think say una head dey hot! You have your work cut out for you: pressure your government to conduct the referendum we asked for. When our country emerges we go. Simple and civil.

Nigeria is drowned.

The best thing at present is to do a referendum because Nigeria is still far away from restructuring.Igbo please leave the North.Let 1966 experience not take you guys unaware again.Hope the unity beggars can see that these northerners mean business? I'm from the middlebelt.

wristbangle:
It's time they arrest these stubborn arewa crooks. They are becoming nuisance.

You see nw? That was exactly what Joshua was saying when the tables turned on him. That his father was being unreasonable. The same father he always threatened he would disown and vacat his house.

Welcome development

Northerners don't make noise, don't chest beat but when they do the yeast trembles

sarrki:



You mean by threatening a particular tribe to leave the north ?

Truth is, they spoke the mind of everyone including presidency. Everyone's fed up with this Biafra shi... oya igbos come and be going, abi you were only playing? Maybe it was the devil?

Hahaha biafrans if you people were joking, then this is the time to get serious. Imagine you want independence and in the course of that, you are blowing hate speeches, insulting federal government, calling Nigeria a zoo, calling northerners terrorist, seeing yourselves as the source of national income. And the freedom finally come, you are just asked to pack your things and go, the people you are feeding does not need you again. Then you are calling for their arrest, begging for peace again, so all the noise you were making was just a mere propaganda to unrest the government or what,?. Hmmmmmm is that not cowardice and dumb?

Nigeria government need to do the needful and call for referendum immediately to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Let us get this process going because any loss of life will be blamed on the Nigerian government.

Aonkuuse:
Hahaha biafrans of you people were joking, then this is the the time to get serious. Imagine you want independence and in the course of that, you are blowing hate speeches, insulting federal government, calling Nigeria a zoo, calling northerners terrorist, seeing yourselves as the source of national income. And the freedom finally come, you are just asked to pack your things and go the people you are feeding does not need you again. Then you are calling for their arrest, begging for peace again, so all the noise you were making was just mere propaganda to unrest the government or what,?. Hmmmmmm is that not cowardice and dumb?

That nonsense you have been drinking can kill you in seconds so you better quit now!

All this while we have been commending their wise step by writing Osinbande you were in stupor , right?

Our brothers residing in the North has a choice and the Nigerian constitution has a role and it owes them a responsibility. So if you are not actually in a situation worse than the zoo, why worry then?
We can't replace anything for freedom, NOTHING!

Go through the thread again you will observe its only the westgreensnaks that are asking for their arrest..

Example:

sarrki:
They should be arrested

Sarrki thanks for your patriotism as a Zoogerian, but NO thanks to you for concerns over our affairs with the north, we can handle their insanity, we have their dose and know the right spot to inject it..

We however welcome their letter to the adopted Ashia breast suckling Osinbande and request they follow it up and not inquire of outcome of the end of the story 'the fire and the stubborn child'.

Paperwhite:
The best thing at present is to do a referendum because Nigeria is still far away from restructuring.Igbo please leave the North.Let 1966 experience not take you guys unaware again.

tell their senators, house of Representatives members to move the motion if truly they want to leave nigeria bunch of cowards

newbornmacho:
A smart lawyer has edited the criminal document arewa youth used to threaten Igbos , they have written a new letter to Ag president Osinbajo without threats and deadlines!!!! grin grin. I think say una head dey hot! You have your work cut out for you: pressure your government to conduct the referendum we asked for. When our country emerges we go. Simple and civil.

A sequel cannot be the same as the maiden. If that is even the case are you not disappointed that your " enemy". Is being more intelligent? They are dynamic so they change with the situation to favour their case. Who has rigidity epp? Even the US relaxed it's position on Cuba and North Korea some time ago. It's called Cleverness.

Prouddevil:
tell their senators, house of Representatives members to move the motion if truly they want to leave nigeria bunch of cowards

They have done that already. Google it.

All Igbo's should use this window of opportunity that northern youth has given to achieve this Biafra or forever remain silent... This is great opportunity that God Himself has given to biafran....Igbo's should capitalized on it....or stop disturbing good in Nigeria

Freemancipation:
Nigeria government need to do the needful and call for referendum immediately to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Let us get this process going because any loss of life will be blamed on the Nigerian government.

They call us zoo, animals theirI nothing like referendum in our Constitution, tell your senators, house of reps to move the motion.

azimibraun:
It has happened. I knew it will get to this. As kids one of my friend always. Threatened his parents with declaring himself as orphan, disowning his parents and go join Islam. His dad was an elder in the catholic church. He did this for years and got away with it becouse his mother was too soft and would prevailed over his father to do my friends wishes. The very fateful day the tables turned and his father lost his nerve, it took the Bishop and very many Reverend Fathers to. allow Joshua ever step his legs in his father's house again and be called a child. His Dad stopped going to church just that people don't even see him and beg him. The Dad got to a point where he filled to divorce Josh's. Mum because of the matter. Empty threat fades when real threats set in. Arewa youth are not even saying violence they are begging the VP to quickly facilitate the exit before. Buhari their own brother comes and start preaching oneness. This is serious.

I don't understand you, Did you read the terms and conditions given to Nnamdi kanu before he left prison. Nnamdi Kanu won't speak until after 1st October. Has he spoken since then? stop deluding yourself. Everything is coming to fruition, do you really think America support Nigeria, I don't know but till 1st october

I want nnamdi kano to reacts to this ultimatum, is too silent lately.