It appears the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has dropped its
earlier demand for an Igbo president in 2019 and have resolved to pursue the
realisation of a Biafra state from Nigeria.
OYC, the youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Tuesday
revealed that it had petitioned the United Nations to begin processes towards
referendum in the South-East to decide what the region wants.
The group also said that in the petition it demanded that
the UN ensure ‘special protection’ for all Igbo living in the North.
The letter was signed by the group’s national president,
Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike (National secretary) Amb Arthur
Obiora (Dep National President) Engr Obinna Adobe (National Publicity
Secretary) and was copied to the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the
United States Embassy in Nigeria, the UK Embassy, the Commonwealth, and the
Amnesty International, among others.
The letter was entitled, “A call for emergency in
Nigeria- our two point demand.”
The group was reacting to the letter to Acting President
Yemi Osinbajo by a coalition of northern youth groups, who prayed him to allow
the Igbo to secede from Nigeria.
The Arewa youths had also in their letter, called on
Osinbajo to make possible a UN organised referendum in Igboland for the people
to decide if they want to remain in Nigeria or their age long desired Biafra.
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