Written by Obinna Akukwe
A northern group,
Coalition of Northern Groups CNG had consisitently issued a sort of quit notice
to Ndigbo, and asked the Emir of Kano, the President of Nigeria and the
National Assembly to grant Igbos the leave to secede from Nigeria to avoid
another round of bloodshed which resulted to a civil war... The Northern Elders
Forum had also re-echoed the same views and recently the Kano Elders recently
joined in seeking a referendum for Ndigbo, and I support their views.
These groups cited the
massive support the activities of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, is
getting, and the conspiratorial silence of Ohanaeze and Igbo elites as proof
that Igbos want to secede from Nigeria. The groups threw their weight behind
the Biafra agitations; provide it will avert bloodshed in Nigeria.
Excerpts of the letter
to the Emir of Kano by the CNG include;
“Since 2017, on almost
a daily basis, IPOB/ESN have coordinated violent attacks, indiscriminate
killings and destruction of properties of northerners that continued
unceasingly in almost all South Eastern states and some South South
communities.
” Evidence also abound of how IPOB’S incitement to mass atrocity and possible genocide against the North, and outright rebellion to the Nigerian state, manifested in the ugly incidents of the#EndSARS protests resulting in attacks and killings of security personnel, non-Igbo residents in the East and arson across Western States like Lagos.
