Okorocha who spoke at the State House in Abuja
said Kanu does not represent or speak for the Igbo,
describing him as a young man seekingrelevance.
“Kanu, a young man seeking relevance, agitating for
whatever he believes in, what he stands for must
be treated separately from the entire Igbo nation.
“He should be treated as a young man agitating and
seeking for relevance, these are two different
issues. And he can ride on the back of supposed
Igbo marginalization which has been said is not
right, and ride on that sentiments and push his
agenda but that does not mean that the entire Igbos
are speaking with him.
“The question is does Nnamdi Kanu have the
capacity to lead Igbo to war? Or lead me and the
governors to war? So I will stand now and Nnamdi
Kanu will tell me stand up let’s go to war? So,
sometimes we over dramatised the issue just to
make a big deal out of it and that has been the big
challenge.
“Like the gentleman that spoke for the Arewa
youths, and these are not more than 17 young men
speaking for millions of Arewa youths and it doesn’t
make sense because if you ask any Arewa youth
now if he is part of this he will tell you no.
“I was in Chatham House and I remember how I
was attacked by the IPOB boys when I was
delivering my lecture. They walked up to me and
they were shouting and I said calm down and the
young man has never visited Nigeria. So it is our
duty to call our younger ones to order but I want to
assure Nigerians that they should not see that as a
break but agitation given what they perceived that
the South East has been neglected overtime
politically, economically, socially and all that.
“Their roads are impassable, you cannot pass Port
Harcourt road, Enugu road, Aba Road, Bayelsa road
and all the roads. You can hardly see federal
government presence in the South East, all the
things you see are self-made things. Even the
Onitshe bridge has been a theoretical talk,
fabrications which does not represent reality. “So,
he speaks his own and joins it to our issues and it
now looks like a nationwide thing. That is not the
issue.
“We have called for unity and have agreed that we
will remain united. Very soon, some of us have
taken it upon ourselves to reach out to this young
men talk to them. We must understand that our
young men are frustrated, if they are as comfortable
as we are, they will not be able to say those.
