perceived ill-treatment of the region by President Buhari’s administration seems to have contributed much as well.
The Igbo ethnic stock during the 2015 election had massively voted for Jonathan from South-South and Buhari had in his response in an interview with an international media said that he should not be expected to treat those who gave him 97 per cent vote the same way he will treat the regions that gave him five per cent votes (referring to the South-East and South-South).
Buhari’s subsequent failure to appoint a single person from the five eastern states in his kitchen cabinet, and also not having any easterner as head of any security agency, among others, have been heavily criticised by the leaders of the region leading to many of them appearing to be in support of Biafra and those who do not, insisting on the restructuring of the country.
The full weight and threat the agitation for Biafra now poses to the country became manifest in the May 30, stay-at-home order by the agitators. The order recorded a near total compliance in the five eastern states of Imo, Anambra, Enugu, Abia and Ebonyi, and partial compliance in some neighboring South-South states.
The order for sit-at home and its compliance appeared to have infuriated the northern youths who, in total neglect of the country’s constitution, ordered all Igbo living in any part of the North to vacate the region on or before October 1, 2017.
The Arewa Youths mean business too
Some analysts argue that the quit notice order, now referred to as Kaduna Declaration, by Arewa youths may be the highest threat to the continuous existence of Nigeria as a country since the Biafra War of 1967-1970.
A coalition of northern youths had, while giving Ndigbo a three-month quit notice order during a press conference held at Arewa House Kaduna on Tuesday, June 6, and read by Alhaji Abdulaziz Suleiman of the Northern Emancipation Network, called on all northern civil society and pressure groups to, by the declaration, mobilise for sustained and coordinated campaigns at their respective states.
“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 should do with the Igbos.
“From that date, effective, peaceful and safe mop-up of all the remnants of the stubborn Igbos that neglect to heed this quit notice shall commence to finally eject them from every part of the North.
“And finally, all authorities, individuals or groups are hereby advised against attempting to undermine this declaration by insisting on this union with the Igbos who have thus far proved to be an
