Evang. Elliot Uko is the founder and President of Igbo Youth Movement, IYM.
The Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) has warned that it is prepared for to fight against any provocation coming from the north.
Reacting to the three-month notice handed Igbos in the north by some groups to leave the region; the IYM said the people of the south-east were not scared of war.
Evang Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko, the founder of the IYM, described the notice from the northern groups as childish in a statement sent to newsmen.
According to Ugochukwu, instead of issuing such a threat, the northern coalition should have written to the National Assembly and other world bodies for a referendum to be held.
The statement read: "The statement from a hitherto unknown northern group is primed to deliver a message to the whole world that some people prefer bloodshed to peaceful restructuring of Nigeria.
“The non-existent group merely represents an attempt by the sectional security apparatchiks to intimidate the struggle to reconstruct Nigeria, in their blind and unintelligent attempt to sustain the clearly unworkable status quo.
“If they were serious, they would have addressed the FG to grant Biafra freedom to secede, but they are childishly targeting Igbo property in the North, without advancing total complete split of the country.
“Igbo properties in the North have always been used to blackmailing our people, while the mindless oppression continues.
"We therefore plead with this unknown group to write to the National Assembly, northern leaders, and the United Nations, to as a matter of urgency, grant a referendum on the future of Nigeria. That way, everybody will take them serious.
“Targeting our properties in the North do not frighten anybody, we are used to that. We beg them to amend their childish statement to demand for an early referendum.
"That would make more sense. Our people are living in hell already. We are not scared of war mongering; Referendum is the way to go.
”Meanwhile, one of the leaders of the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo said the development was a bad signal for the country. Adebanjo called on the northerner leaders to urgently condemn the statement by the northerner youths by saying that they did not speak for the north. He also urged the Federal Government to make a statement on the issue “otherwise it has far-reaching implications to the unity of the nation. Otherwise nobody is afraid of separation. If the North wants to break, there is nothing wrong but the idea of giving ultimatum to a particularly set of people to vacate their region is unacceptable.”
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An appropriate response to northern parasites and jihadists. All hail Biafra!
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