From left: Former pastor of Petroleum, Alh. Umaru Dembo (second left); Bishop Udo Azogu; Prof. Ango Abdullahi; Elder Peter Otueh, Assistant National Sec. OMPALAN; Sir. Chidi Ogbnna, South East Youth pioneer in a matter of seconds and others not long after the meeting held at Prof. Ango Abdullahi's habitation in Zaria
ABUJA – Renowned statesman and Chairman, Northern Elders Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi says his association will work with the Oil and Solid Mineral Producing Communities Landlord Association of |Nigeria, OMPALAN to fabricate connects the nation over and fortify corporate administration.
Prof. Abdullahi made the position known Tuesday amid a meeting with OMPALAN initiative driven by, Bishop Udo Azogu and other official individuals from the gathering in Zaria.
The meeting which was gathered by OMPALAN was gone for splashing the rising strain in the nation and to encourage a cheerful relationship among all ethnic nationalities and to seek after great corporate administration in the nation.
Prof. Abdullahi, a previous Vice Chancellor of Amadu Bello University, Zaria, while respecting the OMPALAN proposition on peace building, said his choice to back the Arewa Youths on the speedy notice issued to Igbos was a result of gathered sentiment selling out of the South Easterners and especially their political pioneers, who neglected to alert Nnamdi Kanu and other Biafra fomenters yet rather gave them full help in their battle.
The Elder statesman, said he was especially stressed that eminent political pioneers in the South East like Dr. Elex Ekwueme, Emeka Anyaoku, Jim Nwobodo and Mbazulike Amechi among others neglected to stand up when the applause was high yet kept quiet while the new Biafra disturbance spread like wide fire and seethed on.
He said he was perplexed when individuals began censuring him for making his own help to Arewa Youths open not at all like other Northern pioneers who imagined about it.
As indicated by him, the North and Eastern Nigeria had made some amazing progress as far as building political extensions beginning from the primary republic when Dr. Nnamdi Zik surrendered the position of Prime Minister to Tafawa Balewa and in second republic when Dr. Alex Ekwueme was upheld by the North to end up Vice President to Shehu Shagari, a relationship, he said the North had for a long while been itching to revive regardless of the mishaps it experienced the three years common war.
He additionally uncovered that piece of their grouse against the Igbo was their inability to welcome the adoration appeared to them by the North after the common war by restoring all their deserted properties back to them notwithstanding rents gathered for their sake by different guardians doled out to administer the influenced properties, some help they (Igbo) couldn't get from their South neighbors who reallocated their properties in Port Harcourt and other South urban communities.
As indicated by him, the Igbo ought to respond the signal of the North by supporting them politically as opposed to turning their back against them.
He refered to two examples where Igbo indicated add up to dismissal of the North when President Mohammadu Buhari picked late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo and Edwin Umezeoke in 2007 and 2011 as a running mates yet were dismisses by the Igbos, which drove them to change over to South West in 2015.
Prior in his opening location, Bishop Azogu said the mission of OMPALAN was to unwind main drivers of the rising instances of tumults and abhor talks which had brought strain up in the nation and to look for conceivable methods for tending to them.
He said OMPALAN saw the different tumults the nation over as a sign of disappointment of administration by the political class and had chosen to work with all ethnic nationalities in the nation, including the Northern Elders Forum to spare the nation from going into precipies.
He educated his host that the advocates of the preset Biafra disturbance despise the help of most Igbo and henceforth the need to refocus their outrage on the political class as opposed to the guiltless and poor Igbos.
Azogu, who ridiculed the South Eastern political class for not taking a typical position to denounce the new Biafra battle stomach muscle initio, reprimanded Prof. Abdullahi for supporting the activity of the Arewa Youths Coalition.
As indicated by him, such help add up to making a sweeping judgment of the whole Igbo race and encouraged him to withdraw his prior proclamation.
Toward the finish of the meeting, both sides concurred that: the different emergency crosswise over Nigeria were because of initiative disappointment; that the obligation of solidarity in Nigeria is more grounded than divisive strengths; that the North adores the Igbos which was exemplified by compensation of all properties having a place with Igbos in the North after the common war; that OMPALAN and Northern Elders Forum would set up a joint peace board of trustees to soak strain created by loathe discourses and secessionist talking points; that there is insufficient confirmation on ground to legitimize trillions of naira dispensed through strong palliative projects to Oil Producing conditions of Nigeria.
The meeting likewise concurred that: Oil is a national issue and that due acknowledgment ought to be given to affected ranges; that Nigeria has been stagnated for more than 60 years by debasement and awful administration; that the abounding powerless Igbo individuals can't be made to pay for the clumsiness of the area's political initiative and segregated secessionist talking points; that Nigeria to stays as one joined together and indissoluble nation where all well behaved residents can live and work together in any piece of the nation without dread of attack or terrorizing; that the quit notice to Igbo's living in the north to fill in as clarion call to the country's pioneers; that there ought to be resilience, settlement and pardoning among Nigerians.
The meeting additionally recorded Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, MNDA; Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC; Oil Derivation Fund Commission and Federal Government Amnesty Program as a portion of the palliative projects built up by government to pad the unforgiving natural effect on oil delivering states:
Talking further to Vanguard Newspaper toward the finish of the meeting, Bishop Azogu said Nigerians are qualified for know the wellbeing status of their President.
He said Buhari is not the President of APC or any exceptional gathering at the same time, the chose President of Nigeria with command to direct the ship of State in consonance with the arrangements of the country's constitution.
As indicated by him, keeping Buhari's wellbeing status mystery for quite a while is offending the sensibilities of Nigerians.
''It resembles saying it's no body's business. Be that as it may, Nigerians won't be noiseless for quite a while.
The Governors and other political pioneers of the South East have fizzled the area. They're unfit to speak to the district. This is the reason a few people capitalized on the vacuum made by the rudderless administration of the locale to interest for withdrawal. No one ought to be tricked any longer.
He said the South East requires another harvest of initiative that can read political gauges precisely and work proactively to secure the enthusiasm of the district.
He portrayed Prof Ango Abdullahi as a legit and earnest pioneer who essentially raised caution to spare the nation from slaughter and breaking down.
''Other wronged pioneers in the North observed the nation on a risky crash course with political agitation and kept quiet. Ango Abdullahi's opportune articulation was not proposed to prompt disorder but rather, a clarion call to all Nigerians of all climes to work cooperatively and protect the solidarity of the Country,'' he said.
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