More Headlines From The 'Igbo Quit Notice' Saga

A coalition of Northern groups on Tuesday last week issued a three month notice to all Igbo living in the northern part of the country to leave the North while also calling on all northerners living in Igbo land to also return to the north.
Spokesman of the group, Abdulazeez Suleiman said the north is no longer disposed to “coexisting with the Igbo and shall take definite steps to end the partnership by pulling out of the current federal
arrangement. That the Igbo's have continued to maintain “open contempt and resentment for " collective decision expressed by majority of Nigerians” since the inception of this administration.

“From today, June6, 2017, when this proclamation is signed, the north a critical player in the Nigerian project hereby declare that it will no longer be disposed to coexisting with the Igbo's and shall
take definite steps to end the partnership by pulling out of the current federal arrangement .
“This concludes necessitated by the realisation that it since ceased to be comfortable or safe to continue sharing the same country with Igbo's who have exhibited reckless disrespect for the other federating units and stained the integrity of the entire nation with their obsessions.
“Rather than certain sections holding the whole nation to ransom at every stage, each should be allowed to go its way as we categorically proclaim today that the north is fed up with being the same country with this pack of acrimonious Igbo partners.
“The north hereby openly calls 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 that has never been convenient to any of the
parties”
As a first step towards the realisation of this,
the groups in the coalition shall “reclaim, assume and assert sole ownership and control of landed resources currently owned, rented or in anyway enjoyed by Igbos in any part of northern Nigeria.
“We are hereby placing the Nigerian authorities and the entire nation on notice that as from the 1st October 2017, we shall commence the implementation of visible actions to prove to the
whole world that we are no longer part of any federal union that do with the Igbo” he concluded.
The groups that signed the text of the press conference include Arewa Citizens Action for Change, Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, Arewa Youths Development Foundation, Area Students Forum, and northern Emancipation Network.
Others are Northern Youths vanguard, Northern Youths Stakeholders Forum, North East Assembly and North Central Peoples Front.
OHANEZE Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has reacted
angrily to the quit-the-North order given to Ndigbo by a coalition of Northern Youth groups, describing it as a “security threat and a crime against the Nigerian State”.
President of Ohaneze Youths Council,
Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro condemned the action of the Northern Youths and warned them to immediately reverse their position. He said “the ultimatum was a call for war and should be treated as such by security agents”, urging security agencies not overlook the threat.
“They are on it again and this is a sad reminder of the civil war.
This is how it started as a joke and before we knew it, a coordinated and simultaneous attack was launched against the Igbos in the North.
“This is a sad development considering efforts being made to unite this country; this is a sad commentary considering the sacrifices Igbos have made in this country.