Ohanaeze Knocks Northern Coalition For Asking Court To Allow Igbo Secede

 

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has lashed out at a northern group over its suit urging a court to allow South East leave Nigeria.

 

Ohanaeze described the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) as jobless people.

 

Recall that the CNG had filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja praying for the secession of the Igbo out of Nigeria to stem the tide of violence and destruction allegedly caused by the agitation for secession championed by the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

 

In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/538/2021, the plaintiffs led by Nastura Ashir Shariff, Balarabe Rufa’i, Abdul-Aziz Sulaiman and Aminu Adam are praying the court to compel the National Assembly to hasten the exit of the South-east before the conclusion of an ongoing constitutional amendment.

 

They claimed that they do not want a repeat of the 1967-1970 civil war that cost the country millions of lives and property worth billions of naira.

 

But in a statement through its spokesman, Chief Chiedozie Ogbonnia, the Igbo group stated that the Igbos will leave the country whenever they want to exit Nigeria.

 

Ogbonnia added that no person or group had the right to act superior to another in Project Nigeria, saying that the Northern coalition members are “indeterminate and not even known.”

 

He said: “Because no group has right whatsoever to ask another to go or to ask another to leave Nigeria, Igbos have as much right in Nigeria as any other ethnic group. And to that extent, Igbos will leave Nigeria only when they wish to do so but not on the instrumentality of another group.