IGBO QUIT NOTICE, NNAMDI KANU REJECT WITHDRAWAL OF THREAT, INSISTS IGBO MUST VACATE NORTH
Igbo quit notice: Nnamdi Kanu rejects withdrawal of threat, insists Igbos must vacate North
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday rejected Arewa youths’ decision to withdrawal the quit notice issued to Igbos in the northern part of the country.
Recall that Arewa youths had recently ordered Igbos residing in the North to vacate the region before October 1.
However, the coalition, in a press conference yesterday in Abuja withdrew the quit notice, saying Igbos can remain anywhere in the North.
But, in its reaction, the pro-Biafra group described the withdrawal of the quit notice as “inconsequential.”
IPOB insists that Arewa youths should, “stick to the quit notice,” if they have any “honour.”
A statement by IPOB’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful reads, “It is inconsequential to IPOB whether the ‘quit notice’ was rescinded or not because it will in no way impact the pace and direction of our effort to restore Biafra.
“Threats don’t have any effect on us, so our advice to the Arewa North is to please stick to the October 1 deadline or else they have no honour.
“We urge all southerners in the core North to return home before October 1 as history will most definitely repeat itself.
“Southerners were massacred in the pogroms of 1966 and 1967 after similar assurances were issued then that people should remain in the North,” the IPOB spokesman said.
The pro-Biafra group alleged that the ‘quit notice’, which it described as an incitement to genocide, was endorsed by Northern political leaders.
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