A group known as the Peoples Movement for a New Nigeria, PMNN, Yahaya Ndu, has cautioned the Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo against asking its people residing in the North to defend themselves against possible attacks by Northerners.
Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Ndu noted that such statement was capable of exposing Igbos in the region to attacks from Northerners.
Ndu was reacting to a statement credited to the National President of Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Council, Okechukwu Isiguzoro saying Igbo living in the North to prepare to defend themselves against possible attack by northerners.
Isiguzoro, had said in Enugu that the ultimatum issued to Igbo by the northern groups was a call to arms, and should be treated as such by security agencies.
However, Ndu contended that it would be difficult for the Igbo, who could not contain the herdsmen attack against them in Enugu, Abia and other part of the South East, to defend themselves in the northern part of the country.
He said, “It is wrong for Ohaneze to have said that Igbo people in the North should defend themselves. It is in bad taste and I find it frightening. If Igbo cannot defend themselves when herdsmen attack them in their villages in the South East, is it in the North that they can defend themselves?
“The issue of Biafra should be discussed. Town unions in Igboland and Igbo people living in the North should discuss this. I do not believe in secession and I also do not believe in the injustice against Ndigbo.
“You (Ohaneze) cannot stay in Enugu and ask defenceless Igbo people in the North to defend themselves. The first civil war was not discussed and 50 years after, we want to make the same mistake again.
“Some are saying the Igbo in the North should start returning, if they return, what would they train their children with? What would they feed their family with.”
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