President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia, has vowed not to allow the Indigenous People of Biafra use Igbo youths to cause trouble.Nwodo said he will sabotage any attempt to cause war in Igboland in the name of agitation for Biafra.
He made the vow while addressing Ndigbo in Lagos at the practice pitch of the National Stadium during the discussion on restructuring.
He recalled how more than two million Igbo lost their lives and how many dreams were aborted during the civil war.
Chief Nwodo said Southern leaders, southern governors and senators, and the Middle belt have agreed on the need to restructure Nigeria. He said the rejoinder of Northern senators to the Southern senators’ call on President Muhammadu Buhari to restructure the country was watery.
Nwodo said he is not against the agitation for Biafra’s self determination because the Igbo are truly marginalised and oppressed in Nigeria.
Be that as it may be, he said is against the philosophy of the instigators since it can't work in Nigeria as of now constituted.The just way out, he contended, is rebuilding and enthronement of monetary federalism which will enable the states to control their assets, handle issues like police, training, wellbeing, mineral assets, and so forth while the Federal Government handle capacities like migration, traditions, focal saving money, flight and outside affairs.Nwodo announced his resistance to another war in Igboland when master Biafran young people employing notices raged the setting while he was tending to the crowd.
Pleading with the security not to manage the dissenters, Nwodo stated: "No one should touch these adolescents. They are my kids. When I was their age, I was in the trench battling for Biafra.
My closest companion passed on at the fight front."More than one million individuals were murdered in the fight, one and half million individuals starved to death… you can't be an adolescent then without setting off to the fight front."I can't enable that to happen to my kin once more. That is the reason I will be a saboteur in any endeavor to exact another war on Igboland.
That is the reason Ohanaeze needs rebuilding of Nigeria.""Northern congresspersons issued a reply to our position on rebuilding, that we are warming the commonwealth however they didn't address the focuses we raised."Notable Igbo pioneers at the social event include: Chief Guy Ikokwu, Agunze Chibueze Ikokwu, Chief Sylvan Ebigwei, Eze Hycinth Ohazulike, Chief Eric Ebe, Prince Emeka Ogbu and Chief Fabian Duru.
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