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How to deal with Kanu, Igbo Assembly advises Buhari

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Jaafar Jaafar
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Jaafar Jaafar is a graduate of Mass Communication from Bayero University, Kano. He was a reporter at Daily Trust, an assistant editor at Premium Times and now the editor-in-chief of Daily Nigerian.
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Dialogue is the only panacea to the cessation calls by the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and leaders of other agitating groups, the Igbo Delegates Assembly, IDA, an umbrella body of Igbos in the 19 northern states and Abuja, has said.

The assembly, rising from a three-day meeting in Abuja, urged the government to shelve the idea of revoking Kanu’s bail.

A communiqué jointly signed at the end of the meeting by Chi Nwogu and ‎Austine Ifedinezi, president general and secretary of the assembly, respectively, urged the federal government to take urgent steps to put Nigeria “on a path of peaceful co-existence, through equitable distribution of patronage and infrastructural development.”

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IDA argued that the recent outburst in favour of the establishment of the state of Biafra was simply a response to the socio-economic imbalances in Nigeria, which, they added, would give way once the imbalances are genuinely addressed.

The group added that “together as a people and persuade the federal government to put in place a framework for equitable existence in the Nigerian project.

“This should be done through the convocation of a sovereign conference, of the component ethnic nationalities, or an adoption of the reports of the 2014 National Conference.”

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On the withdrawal of the October 1, 2017 quit notice on Igbo in the North by Arewa youths, the Assembly saluted prominent northerners who worked for peace as well as the courage of the Coalition in backing down.

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“It is on this note that we appeal to security agencies to be on guard throughout the period to prevent any breakdown of law and order in any part of Nigeria, especially in the north,” it said.

 

 

 

 

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