Concerned by what they described as “persistent Igbo threat to national integration” about 16 Pan-northern groups yesterday concluded that it is high time for the Nigeria to go it separate ways.
The groups who are allegedly sponsored by some Northern Elders and Emirs gave the igbo people residing in the northern region 3-Months ultimatum to vacate the region or faced forceful eviction.
The groups at a Media briefing in Kaduna titled ‘The Kaduna Declaration’ declared that the “North hereby called on the authorities and other national and international stakeholders to acknowledge this declaration by taking steps to facilitate the final dissolution of this hopeless union call Nigeria.”
Leaders of the groups, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman and Ambassador Shettima Yerima who read the ‘Kaduna Declaration’ document to newsmen onbehalf of the 16th Pan Northern groups, gave all Igbos currently residing in any part of Northern Nigeria three months dateline to vacate its region.
“With the effective date of this declaration, which is today (yesterday), Tuesday, June 06, 2017, all Igbos currently residing in any part of Northern Nigeria are hereby served notice to relocate within three months and all northerners residing in the East are advised likewise,” they said.
The said it shall commence the implementation of visible actions to prove to the whole world that the north is no longer part of any federal union that should do with the Igbos from the 1st October 2017.
According to the northern groups, “since the Igbo have clearly abused the unreciprocated hospitality that gave them unrestricted access to, and ownership of landed properties all over the North, our first major move shall be to reclaim, assume and assert sole ownership and control of these landed resources currently owned, rented or in anyway enjoyed by the Igbos in any part of Northern Nigeria.”
The groups mandated its officials to commence immediate inventory of all properties, spaces or activity in the north currently occupied by the Igbos for forfeiture at the expiration of the ultimatum contained in its declaration.
“Rather than certain sections holding the whole country to ransom at every stage, each should be allowed to go its own way as we categorically proclaim today that the North is fed up with being the same country with this pack of acrimonious Igbo partners.
“This conclusion is necessitated by the realization that it since ceased to be comfortable or safe to continue sharing the same country with the ungrateful, uncultured Igbos who have exhibited reckless disrespect for the other federating units and stained the integrity of the entire nation with their insatiable criminal obsessions.
“From today, June 6, 2017, when this proclamation is signed, the North, a critical player in the Nigerian project, hereby declares that it will no longer be disposed to coexisting with the Igbos and shall take definite steps to end the partnership by pulling out of the current federal arrangement,” the northern groups declared.
The groups added that it has to come to this conclusion because “the cruel Igbos have done and are doing more damage to our collective nationhood than any other ethnic group; being responsible for the first violent interference with democracy in Nigeria resulting in a prolonged counter-productive chain of military dictatorship.”
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