- A pan-Igbo group, Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF), said Nigeria unity is negotiable
- ADF has declared that Igbo people are not slave in the country
- The group, however, said President Muhammadu Buhari should rethink his strategy in order to avert unnecessary tension in the polity
A pan-Igbo group, Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF), said Nigeria’s unity is negotiable and that is why Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is agitating for Igbo nation.
Reports have it that the ADF said President Muhammdu Buhari should use his strength to concentrate on creating an enabling environment for Nigerians.
NAIJ.com gathered that the group in a statement signed by the group’s President Uzodinma Nwala and Nath Aniekwu, secretary said nobody is a slave in the country.
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The statement read: ''For the avoidance of doubt, this type of attitude of creating two kinds of citizens; those above the law (Arewa youths) and others, those who will be blackmailed by punishment of the law, even when they commit no offence (IPOB), is one of the factors which fuel most of the agitations all over the country.
''President, Nigeria has never been as divided as this; except during the civil war (1967-70). You need, therefore, to rethink your strategy in order to avert unnecessary tension in this polity.
''Nigeria’s unity is negotiable, that’s all that Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are pointing at. The situation, therefore, needs redressing.
''Nobody is a slave in this country. If there is no law obliterating divorce in Nigeria, it is ironical to think that by mere wishful thinking Nigeria will remain as it were a model of abusive marriage.
''In their statement on June 27th, the Arewa youths had given the Igbo ultimatum to leave Northern Nigeria latest by October 1, 2017.
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''President Buhari, who returned to Nigeria on August 19, 2017, after 104 days in Britain, where he received treatment for undisclosed ailment, in his very short and pointed speech, did not address the quit notice to Ndigbo by Arewa youths; nor did he condemn the virulent Hausa hate songs being circulated as a mass mobilization tool for the looming genocide against Ndigbo.
''Rather, president Buhari, in his ‘maiden’ address declared war on IPOB and Boko Haram, thereby equating the two as terrorist organisations.
''You need, therefore, to rethink your strategy in order to avert unnecessary tension in this polity''.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that a team of Igbo leaders under the aegis of Alaigbo development foundation and southeast elders’ forum sent petition to United States House of Representatives and the United Nations headquarters over the plight of Igbo people in Nigeria.
Watch a NAIJ.com TV video below of Nigerians speaking about Kanu's Biafra secret service:
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Wednesday, 30 August 2017