The Igbo National Council, INC, Sunday, called on the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, to declare a state of emergency in Nigeria’s North.
National President, Comrade Chilos Godsent, in a statement in Owerri on Sunday, warned that the quit notice by Arewa youths that Igbos should vacate the region within three months should not be taken lightly.
“The Igbo National Council (INC) note with dismay the position of some Northern Nigerian Youth organizations mandating Igbo people leaving in the North to leave within seventy two hours or face the wrath of the North”, it reads.
“We wish to state without fear of contradiction that the call contravened the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“The call is also naive and childish.The Igbo National Council (INC) would like to remind the North that nobody have a monopoly of violence.
“We would also request these group of Northern youths to go and study history. Those who make peaceful change in possible make violent change.
“On the forgoing, the Igbo National Council (INC) we like to reiterate that if the fanners of ethnic war should think twice before they make real their threat.
“As the Igbo race will not fold their arms and watch those shenanigans destroy lives and properties of the Igbo people resident in the North.
“Consequent upon the above, the INC call on the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to immediately declare a State of Emergency in the Northern Nigeria in other to forestall the avoidable breakdown of law and order in the country.
“Please we wish to state that if this our demand is treated with levity, ee shall have no other option than to call on Northerners living in Southern Nigeria to Immediately leave the region with the next seventy two hours or face the wrath of the law.”
