The
South-east governors on Wednesday said dialogue and not confrontation was the
only panacea needed to solve the agitation by the Indigenous People Of Biafra,
IPOB.
The governors had a meeting on Wednesday with
the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, at the Government House, Enugu.
The governors, it was gathered, told the IPOB
leader during the meeting that the group’s demands ‘must not be absolute.’
The forum also promised to engage the entire
leadership of IPOB in further dialogue to address their demands.
The meeting commenced at about 2 p.m. and ended
by 4.30 p.m.
Mr. Kanu arrived Enugu Government House around
1.30 p.m. in the company of a constitutional lawyer, Ben Nwabueze, who is also
the leader of Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, and Eliot Uko, deputy secretary of
ILT.
The Chairman of the South-east Governors Forum
and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi; Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi
Ugwuanyi; and Anambra Deputy Governor, Nkem Okeke, were present at the meeting.
The Imo and Abia governors, Rochas Okorocha and
Okezie Ikpeazu, were said to have travelled outside the county.
Mr.
Umahi, who read the communiqué after the meeting, spoke on the outcome.
“The meeting agreed that these demands by IPOB
should not be absolute, rather the South-east Governors shall immediately
engage the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, and the entire leadership of IPOB to
further meetings and dialogue with a view to quickening the resolutions of all
issues amicably,” Mr Umahi said briefly.
The meeting with the IPOB leader may not be
unconnected with the recent move by the federal government to re-arrest him on
alleged violations of his bail condition. Mr Kanu is currently on bail after
being charged with alleged treasonable offences.
Mr. Kanu in a recent reaction dared the federal
government to arrest him.
Kanu is currently agitating for a sovereign
state of Biafra.
- Premium Times
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