Former Kano State governor, Senator Rabiu Musa kwankwaso (APC, Kano Central) yesterday said Igbo in the North cannot
leave the region because of their numerous investments.
He also said the size of the land Igbo presently occupy in the North is more than the entire South East geopolitical zone.
Speaking in an interview on the agitation for secession by Igbo groups and the quit notice by some northern groups, he said
none of the millions of Igbo in the North would support breakup of Nigeria.
“Igbo have nowhere to go. They have more assets in the North more than 80 percent or so of what the northerners have in the East. The land Igbo are holding in the North is more than the whole South East,” he said.
Kwankwaso, who chairs the Senate Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs, said the agitation at both sides
does not portray the country in good light among the comity of nations.
He said there was urgent need for all stakeholders in the country to put hands on deck to make peace saying, “The unity and
development of the country is key to all other things, therefore we will continue to stand by it. Therefore, I call on all to join
hands in ensuring that there is peace. We should use our resources to ensure that nobody raise hands to destroy the unity of the country. Talking of secession is going too far.
“Some people doing it because of their personal interest. I wouldn’t be surprised that the young man (Nnamdi Kanu) will contest
for an election in the next general elections. They started agitation to galvanize support and at the end, they would contest for
an election.”
Kwankwaso said during his tenure as governor, a layout known as ‘New Enugu’ was carved out in Kano for the Igbo, saying the
Igbo are more comfortable there than their states of origin. On the quit notice by some northern youths, he said the general consensus in the North was that the country is better as one
family.

http://www.biafrainsider.com/2017/06/igbos-cannot-leave-north-because-of.html?m=1

obviously

They are free to die there after 0ctober 1st
Our clamour for independence wouldn't stop

Lol!

Let them go to their promised land, where IPOB have already set up plans to take care of the returnees using a communism template.

They will build high-rise apartments to accomodate for lack of land. Necessity remains the mother of invention.

I give them 1year as a country, then the world will be forced to intervene in the mindless civil war that would have engulfed the Igbo only country. I only wonder which other tribe would be blamed for their woes then?

The land Igbo are holding in the North is more than the whole South East,”
" Igbo are more comfortable there than their states of origin"
what is this guy smoking? the above statement is false. political statements wont help the nigerian project

THE STUBBORN FLY FOLLOWS THE CORPSE TO THE GRAVE.

ONCE NIGERIA GIVES US REFERENDUM, NO IGBO MAN WILL BE IN THE NORTH.

FIRST REFERENDUM.

It's like they did not put that into consideration before agitation for Biafra.

I just hope they get wiser and start retrieve there investment cos sooner or later, they still have to leave!

These Northerners are funny as some Nigerians are. There is little or no relationship between Igbos leaving the North and having their own country.

What do the two have to do with each other?

ScotsReferendum:
They are free to die there after 0ctober 1st

Our clamour for independence wouldn't stop

is there any stipulated time for biafra to come to live, it is only arewa youth that issued oct 1st for ur kindred to vacate the north and nt 4 u to declare biafra republic on oct 1st?

kingzizzy:
These Northerners are funny as some Nigerians are. There is little or no relationship between Igbos leaving the North and having their own country.

What do the two have to do with each other?

Since you cannot see the relationship, then let me spell it out for you.
By the time the igbos have their own country, then they are longer citizens of nigeria and therefore will need to obtain visas before they can be granted entry back to nigeria.

To do business or work in nigeria, they'll need to obtain work permits. Their people in civil service, private practice, contractors, students etc will no longer have the automatic rights previously enjoyed except with an array of papper work, not just in the north alone, but the rest of nigeria (lagos, abuja, warri and every where else the igbos are spread).

These things wont be automatic. So look again and tell yourselves some home truths.

In4matic:


Since you cannot see the relationship, then let me spell it out for you.
By the time the igbos have their own country, then they are longer citizens of nigeria and therefore will need to obtain visas before they can be granted entry back to nigeria.

To do business or work in nigeria, they'll need to obtain work permits. Their people in civil service, private practice, contractors, students etc will no longer have the automatic rights previously enjoyed except with an array of papper work, not just in the north alone, but the rest of nigeria (lagos, abuja, warri and every where else the igbos are spread).

These things wont be automatic. So look again and tell yourselves some home truths.

Once Biafra is established, we will forbade our people from doing business in Nigeria

Our people will be empowered to do business in other parts of the world starting from Africa.

hammer6:
[s]THE STUBBORN FLY FOLLOWS THE CORPSE TO THE GRAVE.

ONCE NIGERIA GIVES US REFERENDUM, NO IGBO MAN WILL BE IN THE NORTH.

FIRST REFERENDUM.[/s]

Move back to the 5 south east state first, then u get referendum

kingzizzy:
These Northerners are funny as some Nigerians are. There is little or no relationship between Igbos leaving the North and having their own country.

What do the two have to do with each other?

It should be clear to any Igbo man or woman living in the North that they are simply tolerated- barely- and not fully accepted there. They're only there because the Northern elite wants to keep milking the Niger Delta dry by keeping Nigeria 'one'. They're being used as pawns here as, make no mistake about it, when the Northerners compare the Igbos in the North to the Northerners in Igboland, they are comparing lives not just businesses. This is a thinly veiled threat that they will 'deal with' the Igbos in the North should we ramp up our attempts to secede.

The most ironic thing is that the vast majority of Igbos still living in the North are ardent supporters of 'One Nigeria', with many even regarding themselves as Northerners... what a shame .

slivertongue:
The land Igbo are holding in the North is more than the whole South East,”

" Igbo are more comfortable there than their states of origin"

what is this guy smoking? the above statement is false.
political statements wont help the nigerian project

He spoke the absolute truth. A lot of Igbos will rather live with an hausa man than with a fellow Igbo. This I have been told by my numerous Igbo friends

StOla:
Let them go to their promised land, where IPOB have already set up plans to take care of the returnees using a communism template.

They will build high-rise apartments to accomodate for lack of land. Necessity remains the mother of invention.

I give them 1year as a country, then the world will be forced to intervene in the mindless civil war that would have engulfed the Igbo only country. I only wonder which other tribe would be blamed for their woes then?

Looool they will seek refugee status in Yoruba land and will be rejected or made to shine shoe daily

ScotsReferendum:



Once Biafra is established, we will forbade our people from doing business in Nigeria

Our people will be empowered to do business in other parts of the world starting from Africa.

hahahahaha.
How naive can one get. Do you have any idea of the millions of igbo people you are talking about? Gov kwankwaso was not joking when he said the igbos hold more land outside the south east than the whole of the entire south east!
How will you feed them?
How will you house them?
With what resources?
Will you help them move all their spare parts and bales of cheap clothes all the way back to the east?
Even if you succeed with that, who will buy them?
Think my bro, think!

In4matic:


hahahahaha.
How naive can one get. Do you have any idea of the millions of igbo people you are talking about? Gov kwankwaso was not joking when he said the igbos hold more land outside the south east than the whole of the entire south east!
How will you feed them?
How will you house them?
With what resources?
Will you help them move all their spare parts and bales of cheap clothes all the way back to the east?
Even if you succeed with that, who will buy them?
Think my bro, think!

Don't worry about us

After all, we survived after the civil war


Once Biafra is established, with our resources, we can quickly lay down the infrastructure that supports business and empower those businesses to expand globally.

ScotsReferendum:



Don't worry about us

After all, we survived after the civil war


Once Biafra is established, with our resources, we can quickly lay down the infrastructure that supports business and empower those businesses to expand globally.

LOL...
You survived the civil war ehn?
Look here, the only reason you survived the civil war was because of foreign aid.
The only reason you thrived after the civil war was only because the rest of nigeria re-embraced you, gave you an enabling environment, allowed you own properties and even married their daughters. There's nothing unique your forebears did.

Everybody busy talking about the millions of igbos in the north, what about another millions of igbos in the south west, they must go back to the south east too

genearts:



He spoke the absolute truth. A lot of Igbos will rather live with an hausa man than with a fellow Igbo. This I have been told by my numerous Igbo friends

thank God u were told not that you have first hand info
what is the land mass of the east and what land mass do the igbos occupy outside the east?
stop allowing politicians to decieve you
of the truth it is time the igbos look homeward, before the crisis that hit jos the ijaws and urhrobos sold their property and moved home, after the crisis the yoruba's did same and i think it is time the igbos do same

In4matic:


LOL...
You survived the civil war ehn?
Look here, the only reason you survived the civil war was because of foreign aid.
The only reason you thrived after the civil war was only because the rest of nigeria re-embraced you, gave you an enabling environment, allowed you own properties and even married their daughters. There's nothing unique your forebears did.

Afonja, we have heard you

Did we say we will beg you for our survival


We survived before and we will do so again.


Our minds are made up


We will empower our people to establish global businesses

ScotsReferendum:



Afonja, we have heard you

Did we say we will beg you for our survival


We survived before and we will do so again.


Our minds are made up


We will empower our people to establish global businesses

Lol, so anybody who speaks with reason is now afonja. Hehehe. As my people will say, "dem no dey tell blind man say market don close, wen time reach, he go know".

You keep saying you will empower your people.
With what sef, your paper money biafran pounds, or you'll compel your business moguls to cough up their stashed dollars and give it freely to the new state?
Or you want to start exporting your cheap 2nd hand clothes, fake drugs, substandard materials your people excel at selling?
In fact the more i think of it, the more i think you people should really go. But dont fool yourslves for one minute that the south south will join you. It'll be easier for cameroun to join you than the niger delta.

D igbos in d east calling their brothers and sisters to come home just dey waste their time. Cos even d igbos in d north knows that most of their investments nâ north e dey. D igbos in d north go dey like which wahala dis people Wan bring upon us so. U Don see any hausa man dey build hotels, recreation center for East? Come to d north,igbo men dey build even stadium sef. Hausa man can stay in d east for 50years make e b say nâ for inside constructed zinc e go dey live wit hin wife and children Dat is if at AL him bring him family follow body o

D igbos in d east calling their brothers and sisters to come home just dey waste their time. Cos even d igbos in d north knows that most of their investments nâ north e dey. D igbos in d north go dey like which wahala dis people Wan bring upon us so. U Don see any hausa man dey build hotels, recreation center for East? Come to d north,igbo men dey build even stadium sef. Hausa man can stay in d east for 50years make e b say nâ for inside constructed zinc e go dey live wit hin wife and children. Dat is if at AL him bring him family follow body o