it is planning a meeting aimed at mounting pressure on Igbos residing
or carrying out business in any part of the North to relocate to the
South-east and all Northerners residing in the South-east should
return back to the north, and they have two weeks to comply.
The coalition of Northern youths explained that its action is
necessitated by the renewed threat of secession by Igbo secessionist
group which is being backed by some of their governments and leaders
by humiliating and harassing petty Northern traders and others
residents in the South-east.
The Coalition also urged the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the
Northern Elders Forum (NEF) to as a matter of urgency act quickly by
taking a position on the humiliation of northerners in the hands of
Igbo Biafra in parts of the South-east geo-political zone and their
governments.
The group, in a letter jointly signed by Barr. Aliyu Usman of AYDF,
Hon. Aminu Adams Arewa Citizens Action for Change(ACAC) Bridget
Cantiop Yahya Northern Emancipation Network (NEN), Comrade Yusuf
Muhammed of Arewa Students Forum (ASF) and Terkular J.Bishama. Of
Arewa Youth vanguard (AYV), and made available to newsmen in Kaduna,
said towards this end, it would soon convey a meeting of all northern
youth groups in Kano to review the commitment of Northern leaders and
actions on their previous communication in respect of the agitation by
the Igbos.
"On the 16th of July 2014, a coalition of over 50 northern youth
groups matched to the palace of the Emir of Kano under the aegis of
Arewa Youth Development Foundation and submitted a position paper in
reaction to the humiliation of northerners in the East by the Igbo
Biafras and their state governments," the statement noted.
-InformationNigeria
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