Igbo can’t leave North after investing N44trn – Ohanaeze Youth Council

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, the youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that the Igbo people cannot leave the North after spending over N44trn to develop the region.

The Ohanaeze youth wing stated this yesterday while reacting to the three-month ultimatum given to Igbo to leave the Northern parts of the country over the agitation for Biafra in the South-East by some faceless Northern group.

The group also instructed the Igbo living in the North to prepare to defend themselves against possible attack by Northerners.
A coalition of Northern groups, including the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, had, on Tuesday, told all Igbo in the North to leave the region by October 1.

Rising from a meeting in Enugu, the National President of the OYC, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said the ultimatum issued to Igbo by the Northern groups was a call to arms, and should be treated as such by security agencies.

The theme of the emergency meeting was ‘Igbo mandate against genocide.’

Meanwhile, Igbo lawyers under the aegis of Otu Oka-Iwu (Law Society) has asked the Federal Government to take urgent steps to unmask the faceless “Northern groups” that issued an ultimatum to the Ndigbo to vacate the North.

In a statement by its President, Chief Chuks Ikokwu, the association said, it was “curious” that the declaration was “made inside the symbolic Arewa House in Kaduna State.

The lawyers further called on the FG to take immediate steps to arrest and prosecute the authors of the hate declarations and inciting statements which they said are capable of throwing the country into a needless conflagration that will do no-one any good.
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