The Northern Youth Coalition, led by the Arewa Youth is set to withdraw the October 1 quit notice given to Igbos to quit the region.

The youth were waving the olive branch after a meeting with Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima in Abuja yesterday, The Nation reports.

Arewa Youth Coalition spokesman Abdulaziz Suleiman told reporters that consultations were ongoing among members with a view to withdrawing the quit notice.

Suleiman ascribed the decision to withdraw the quit notice to what he described as “positive developments” that came out of the meeting with Shettima and persuasions from the Northern Governors Forum.

On the actual date for the withdrawal of the notice, Suleiman said: “You will hear from us this week.”

He added, “What we can say is that there has been a major development. Now the chairman of the Governors’ Forum has taken the initiative and invited us to start negotiations. This is the first time we are meeting publicly with any leader and we believe that it is a major step forward in our ongoing consultations.

“We hold the governor in high esteem and we have the unity of the country at heart”.

Suleiman said, “You see, I wonder why you talk about quit notice. We only issued a Kaduna declaration, quit notice is just a part of it. Let us do the recounting of the successes of our declarations first. We are sill going on with our consultations”.

The governor said he was able to impress it on the youth to appreciate the enormity of the challenges facing the country and how the quit notice they issued had compounded the situation.

Shettima, who is the chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, added that the governors have also been in discrete consultations with the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa‘ad Abubakar on this and other issues.

Confirming the decision of the Arewa Youths to withdraw the quit notice, Shettima said they had agreed to review their position and that he was expecting the good news from them in the next few days.

The governor said, “We met with the leadership of the coalition of Northern Groups in my capacity as the chairman of the Northern Governors Froum.

“We had very fruitful discussion with them and they have shown a lot of courtesy and respect for the establishment. This is the first time that they are sitting down with the leadership of the forum.

“They were having interactions with His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto. I started conversations with them right from Kaduna yesterday and we continued the discussion today and by the grace of God, it is going to yield fruits.

“We are trying to have understanding of the challenges confronting us as a people and solutions to those challenges. I have to commend them for honouring our invitation because a political problem needs a political solution”.

Shettima cautioned against criminalising the group, adding that harassing and intimidating them would not bring solution to the nation’s challenges.

“They have agreed to revisit their decision and we will follow it up to its logical conclusion and I believe that in the next couple of days, we are going to get the: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/quit-notice-to-igbos-is-just-part-of.html

Implement your quit notice order or you remain perpetual cowards like afonja.

You think you can silence Ipob agitation with your yeye quit notice order ?.

F00ls.

Late post

they can keep it



their message has been copied



pvssy fuvcked can't be unfvcked

No need to dignify these toothless local Dogs with a grandeur appeasement. Just let them try it first. Let them touch one Southerner in the North and see if they would not regret it forever.

Nobody has monopoly of Violence.

Yeye parasitic yoots.

This are the kind of statements we read when a president is absent from duty

Politics of words..... This country is becoming so boring.

The only thing that pain me is after as we yoruba muslim support them with the quit notice,now they want to disappoint us.we have been also gathering morale on how to send igbo back to their Potopo village but now our liver don cut...this thing dey pain me well.