The United States has warned against the division of Nigeria and
promised it would continue to work for the promotion of the unity of the
most populous black nation.
The country’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Stuart Symington, said U.S recognised the strength of Nigeria.
The envoy led top officials of the embassy on a working visit to the
office of the Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, in Ibadan, on
Monday.
He said that the visit was in furtherance of his country’s vision and
mission to explore new frontiers of partnership for development with
African countries.
Meanwhile, the coalition of northern youth groups have formally
written a letter o Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, asking him to allow
the Igbo’s Biafra dream to materialse.
They insisted on Monday that Igbo residing in Nothern states should leave the region on October 1, 2017.
The groups on the platform of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) wrote the letter to Osinbajo.
The National President of AYCF, Alhaji Shettima Yerima, said that the
open letter was signed by five of the leaders of the groups.
They are 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).
They asked Osinbajo to facilitate an easy exit for the Igbo to be
allowed to have their dream country, Biafra in line with the principle
of self-determination as an integral part of contemporary customary
international law.
“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.”
They 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.”
“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.”
The groups noted that the 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.”
They gave the assurance that no Igbo would be harmed in the North but
they should be allowed to have their Biafra Republic without a drop of
blood.
Source: Guardian
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