Special Assistant (SA), to the Delta State Governor on Non-Indigene Affairs, Muktari Usman, has thrown his weight behind Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Nnmadi Kanu and appealed to President Mohammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC), government to listen to the agitation of IPOB to secede from Nigeria.
Usman, who is also the Secretary, Northern Traditional Council, South-south and South-East made the appeal while reacting to the quit notice given to the Igbos by the Arewa Youths to leave the North by October Ist which has received contrary views and wide criticism from stakeholders.
“Let the present government look into their agitation. When you are looking for your right, there are certain things that you need to get that you didn’t get, that is why you are agitating. If that thing has been given to you, you will come back to normal. So, from my own understanding, the Biafrans are looking for something, if the people that matter will call them to order, I think it
will be settled.
“The people are not agitating to leave
Nigeria but there are certain rights they felt is for them that they did not give to them. So, by the time they give them, they will comply. There is nothing compared to dialogue, there is nothing like dialogue. When we dialogue, at the end of the day, we come to the centre point where both of us will be happy.” Usman said.
Usman who bemoaned the current challenges been faced by the nation, warned against any form of abuse of the rights of any Nigerian even as he tongue lashed his kinsmen over the quit notice issued to the Igbos.
“We cannot abuse the privileges given to us by God. I believe those boy; they don’t know what war is. If they experience what is war, I think they won’t be making this statement. I think that there are some persons that are backing them and those people that are backing them, they must see what they are looking for.” Usman stated.
According to the Special Assistant, the hospitality the northerners who resides in the south-south and south-east would not be accorded them if they were to be in the north.
“I know the 100 per cent hospitality given to our people in the whole of South-South and South-East, and we cannot get such hospitality if we go to the north. I am comfortable here than the north. So, what they are agitating cannot see the light of the day.”
Usman however called on members of IPOB to stop the harassment and go about their agitation peacefully noting that “Nobody is saying you should not agitate but you should not be intimidating people. If you are looking for your right, you can go ahead and look for your right but not by intimidation.” he said.
It would be recalled that governor Ifeanyi Okowa had openly declared during a press conference in 2016 at the press centre, government house that Delta state was not part of Biafra.
