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President Yemi Osinbajo has been called upon by a coalition of Igbo
professionals to organise a national referendum to determine if Nigeria
will continue to exist before it is too late.
A coalition of Igbo professionals in Nigeria and the Diaspora under
the aegis of Igbo Ekunie Initiative, has called on the Federal
Government to organise a referendum to determine the continuity of the
country as a united entity.
The group expressed this in a letter addressed to the Acting
President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, which was also a reaction to the
previous letter written by the Arewa youth to the acting president, the
Igbo group urged the presidency to, as a matter of urgency, pass a
motion that will allow all sections of the nation campaign for, and hold
a referendum to freely determine if they want to remain in Nigeria or
not.
According to Guardian, the letter signed by the president of the
group, Tochukwu Ezeoke, noted that the motion would serve as a final,
peaceful and civilized settlement of the ever-increasing contradictions
and bloodletting that has long plagued the nation.
While the tone of the letter commended the Acting President for his
statesmanship approach to resolving long-standing issues in the nation,
the group disagreed with Osinbajo’s position that Nigeria is an
indivisible, indissoluble entity saying, “History has revealed that no
nation is indivisible or indissoluble.”
The group goes ahead to fault the threat issued by the Arewa youth,
saying, “Nigeria remain subject to international laws particularly the
United Nation’s Charter, which recognized the inalienable rights of all
groups and indigenous groups to self-determination.”
The letter reads: “While we appreciate the belated recognition
of this fundamental rights by the North, we are amused that Arewa youths
only just discovered the existence of this right.
“The right to self-determination is a fundamental; integral to
the UN since it was founded in 1945. In recognition of this fact, we
hope Arewa youths will now have the humility to apologise for the
illegal war waged against Biafra, which was abinitio, a repudiation of
international laws on self-determination they now acknowledge.”
Igbo Ekunie Initiative also said it hopes the north would apologize
for all the incarcerated and murdered members of the Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB), ‘whose only crime was the peaceful expression or
non-violent demonstrations for their right to self-determination as
recognised by the UN and African Union (AU) charters.”
According to the Igbo group, “The quit notice issued by Arewa
youths demonstrates the ignorance and consequent failure to realize that
residency rights like property rights as governed by international law
transcend citizenship.
“Thus Nigerians live in Ghana, America, the United Kingdom and
elsewhere even without being citizens. Likewise, British citizens living
in other parts of the EU have not left because of ‘Brexit’. “The
ongoing developments in the country have once again shown why Nigeria
remains the dreg of humanity and a failed state where basic indices of
civilization and rule of law are absent.”
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