The Federal Government has assured people of the South-East extraction resident in the North of their continued safety.
This is following the October 1st deadline issued by a northern group that they should vacate the region.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed made the disclosure while addressing State House Correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, on Wednesday.
The Minister disclosed that the threat was being handled by relevant security agencies of the government.
Mohammed said, “It is not the first time that different groups will issue such threats.
“It is not new, but what I want to assure you is that the security agencies are on top of the situation.”
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 yesterday, 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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