Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu
Sabi Abdullahi, has condemned the three months’ ultimatum given to
Igbos to leave the North, stressing that the group spoke for itself and
not for the entire region.
Abduallhi, who made the remark while featuring on Channels Television
called for unity, noting that the country is at a critical stage.
According to Abdullahi, “I think you can agree with me that at this
critical stage in our nation’s history, that (the threat) is not what we
need and I want to submit that those people who spoke in Kaduna were
speaking for themselves.
“I am a northerner and I don’t think my constituents have even spoken
on that issue. We are very accommodating and we have all manner of
Nigerians living in the various domains that we represent.”
The Senate spokesperson admonished Nigerians against abusing
privileges, saying, “I think it is time for us to say for every
privilege there is some responsibility and you must be responsible for
reactions.”
Recall that the spokesperson of the Northern Coalition group,
Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY, Abdulaziz Suleiman, had ordered
Igbos to vacate the region in three months.
Speaking on Tuesday, Suleiman had said the entire Northern Nigeria
was tired of coexisting with the Igbos and asked that, “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.
“The persistence for the actualization of Biafra by the unruly Igbo
of South-Eastern Nigeria has lately assumed another alarming twist which
involved the forceful lockdown of activities and denial of other
people’s right to free movement in the South-East by the rebel
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its overt and covert sponsors.”
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