Members of Arewa Youths Coalition have perfected plans to withdraw an earlier quit notice issued to all Igbos living in the North to vacate the region before October 1st. The spokesman of the group, Abdulaziz made the disclosure on Sunday after a crucial meeting with the Governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima in Abuja.
According to him “What we can say is that there has been a major development. Now the chairman of the Governors’ Forum has taken the initiative and invited us to start negotiations. This is the first time we are meeting publicly with any leader and we believe that it is a major step forward in our ongoing consultations."
“We hold the governor in high esteem and we have the unity of the country at heart. You see, I wonder why you talk about quit notice. We only issued a Kaduna declaration, quit notice is just a part of it. Let us do the recounting of the successes of our declarations first. We are still going on with our consultations.”
The Governor who confirmed the development in a chat with newsmen said “They have agreed to revisit their decision and we will follow it up to its logical conclusion and I believe that in the next couple of days, we are going to get the good news from them"
"I don’t want to preempt them by saying that this is what will happen or not. But definitely, they have shown responsibility and commitment to the national cause and they have wider plans to promote the cause of national unity and cohesion" he added.
The Governor also called on the leadership of the South East region to engage their youths in dialogue in order to promote national integration.
“I wish to call on the leadership of our brethren in the South Eastern part of the country to equally pick the gauntlet, because it takes two to tango, to take the gauntlet and rein in the excesses of Nnamdi Kanu and his group”.
