The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), on Thursday, lambasted members of Igbo Elders’ Consultative Forum (IECF) and other groups clamouring for the emergence of a president of South-East extraction, saying they are going about their agitation in a wrong manner.

The CNG alleged that the Igbo elders constituted a serious security threat to the country, adding that their recent warning that any attempt to elude the South-East geopolitical zone of the presidency in 2023 would rupture Nigeria’s corporate existence betrayed their desperation.

The Northern Coalition, therefore, called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of IECF members led by former Anambra governor, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, for threatening the nation, its institutions and the people.

CNG Spokesman, Abdulazeez Suleiman, while addressing journalists in Abuja, also knocked other Igbo leaders who, according to him, are thirsty for the zone to produce Nigeria’s next President for allegedly seeking to tamper with the nation’s criminal justice system by pressuring for the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

It would be recalled that there have been intense political posturing, permutations and fireworks, especially as the eight-year tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari, who is from the North-West, winds down.

However, the clamour for an Igbo President has since resonated with some 18 months to the general elections, especially as the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has been consistent in its demand for an Igbo President in 2023.

But the CNG argued that the continued resort to attacks on agents and symbols of the Federal Government of Nigeria in the South-East have deepened the fears that the Igbo cannot and should never be trusted with presidential power and rendered their renewed desperation for the Igbo presidency suspect.

Suleiman said, “The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), has taken stock of events in Nigeria, particularly in the past few months when our democracy, political unity and national security have come under serious scrutiny, noting especially, the unrelenting violent disturbances created around certain interests of the Igbo people.

“This is confirmed by the utterances and actions of such Igbo leaders as the former Governor of Anambra State and Chairman of the Igbo Elders Consultative Forum, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, when he threatened the continued existence of Nigeria during a condolence visit paid to him by Igbo leaders of thought and traditional rulers on April 5, 2022.

“Similarly, groups of Igbo leaders and elders have engaged in desperate covert and overt efforts to secure the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the IPOB terror group standing trial for crimes against the state.

“As if these were not enough, same group of Igbo elders again recklessly issued a national security threat on May 4, 2022, that any attempt to elude the zone of the presidency in 2023 may rupture the existence of Nigeria as a corporate entity as well as aggravate crisis, conflicts, separatist demands and others.

The CNG observes that the perpetrators of this senseless violence are relentlessly pursuing the agenda of destruction and collective mayhem, fervently hoping it will engulf the entire country and bring about another civil war and mass killings.

“This has deepened the fears that the Igbo cannot and should never be trusted with presidential power and rendered their renewed desperation for the Igbo presidency suspect.

“The foregoing observations have made it impossible for us to remain indifferent or silent in the face of such extreme provocations and insistent drive towards civil strife.

“In the present circumstance, the CNG hereby declares the following definite stand: To declare that the Igbo as a people have by their serial atrocious actions inadvertently foreclosed every hope for the rest of us to continue coexisting with them as one nation.

“To demand the immediate arrest and prosecution of all the Igbo leaders and elders involved in the desperation to tamper with the nation’s criminal justice system by pressuring for the unconditional release of terrorist leaders.

“To demand the arrest and prosecution of all the Igbo leaders that openly threaten national security and corporate existence of the Nigerian nation in desperation for an Igbo presidency.

“To take every political and legal measure to frustrate and resist the dangerous Igbo scheme to secure Nigeria’s presidency in 2023 or anytime in the future, including: warning any northern politician against picking any Igbo man from whatever part of Nigeria as running mate, and mobilising the North against supporting, participating, in or, in anyway romancing with any political party that fields a candidate of the South East or has any Igbo politician in a position of prominence.

“To demand immediate resort to available decent and civilized means for the actualization of the final separation of the South-East from the rest of Nigeria in order to avoid the mishaps intended by the Igbo’s evil plans and avert unnecessary devastation on the entire country.

“To demand relevant Nigerian authorities and international agencies to step in and support the pending court process seeking for a referendum that will finally separate the South East from Nigeria to prevent a descent into another civil war at this day and age, as well as forestall the mass killings, untold sufferings and atrocities intended by the Igbo.”

Suleiman, however, maintained that the CNG would remain committed to the search for a Nigerian leader with the capacity, competence and credibility to be trusted and accepted by all Nigerians irrespective of his tribe, religious calling or regional background except of course, the Igbo and the South-East.

“The CNG also recommits to the pursuit of a legal framework for the conduct and implementation of a general referendum to determine the status of the South-East or any enclave that wishes for self determination from Nigeria,” he added

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The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), on Thursday, lambasted members of Igbo Elders’ Consultative Forum (IECF) and other groups clamouring for the emergence of a president of South-East extraction, saying they are going about their agitation in a wrong manner

The irony of this is the elders are not even respected by their youths cos they could have called them to order.

The truth is SE lack decorum.. I am yet to understand why issues related to the region would cause so many division with different opinions.

Ohaneze would be saying A while Massob is saying W
Ipob's ideas about issue is totally different from their political elites..

How do they expect others to take them seriously when they don't even take themselves seriously?

The guilty are afraid.

Afraid of the feeding bottle being removed from their mouths and shared equitably among all Nigerians

Afraid of loosing their grip on southern security posts where they manipulate things to get huge funding in the guise of fighting the terror they caused in the first place

Afraid of letting go of Lagos seaport which belongs to Yorubas

Afraid of letting go of Igbo gas deposits which are in Billions of metric tonnes

Afraid of losing their grip of Niger Delta oil money

Afraid of competing against all other Nigerians on a level playing field

But

Everything has an expiry date, the North will soon outfox itself, and then, they will be paid back for many years of eating other people's food while causing confusion among them.

Make law makers vote in support of Biafra let the Igbos go abeg. Even if the Igbos are landlocked, it would help them to be self reliant.

No igboman is sincerely happy being in a country with alakubar people

We the south better let the north rule until we separate because this mofos can do anything for domination....

Ibo will never rule this country

So north is saying there is no Igbo man they can trust with power ? Absolutely none ? Even the ones carrying one Nigeria on their head ? Lmfao

Edyice:
We the south better let the north rule until we separate because this mofos can do anything for domination....

And u think they would allow separation of they are in power? Where do you think the money used for running Nigeria is coming from? Is it the North?

Igbos deserve to be Nigeria's next president. Whether in 2023 or 2027 or in another time. The CNG should be scrapped and all the members arrested.
Any vagabond in the north should be crushed. Especially those that murdered & burnt Deborah Samuel be yesterday 12-05-2022.
The wicked ll know no peace Insha Allah, Amen.

Edyice:
We the south better let the north rule until we separate because this mofos can do anything for domination....

You could have also posted graphics of Igbos activities as well to balance this up..

Sebi truth na bitter leaf to some of you which you must always do whataboutism about

Eish

Ibos, over to you.

The greatest existential threats to Nigeria are the Hausa/Fulanis and Iboes.

They are both extreme sides of violence

Sweetplum:
Igbos deserve to be Nigeria's next president. Whether in 2023 or 2027 or in another time. The CNG should be scrapped and all the members arrested.
Any vagabond in the north should be crushed. Especially those that murdered & burnt Deborah Samuel be yesterday 12-05-2022.
The wicked ll know no peace Insha Allah, Amen.

The bastards that killed and severed the head of a pregnant army woman and those roasting human heads for cannibalism in the East deserve the same treatment like those of Deborah killers

ygowon:
Make law makers vote in support of Biafra let the Igbos go abeg. Even if the Igbos are landlocked, it would help them to be self reliant.

No igboman is sincerely happy being in a country with alakubar people

even ikweremadu too?

Peter Obi will be the next President according to his Igbo supporters..
President of SE geopolitical zone okwa'aya.

ManMountain:


The bastards that killed and severed the head of a pregnant army woman and those roasting human heads for cannibalism in the East deserve the same treatment like those of Deborah killers

I agree. And may nemesis caught up with the northern part of Nigeria.
All the evil they v done, they ll reap them, amen.

Sweetplum:

I agree. And may nemesis caught up with the[b] northern part of Nigeria[/b].
All the evil they v done, they ll reap them, amen.

and south east too
iseee

Igbo:
and south east too
iseee

Amen.
In your mind, you ll think I m so south eastern.
I m a neutral woman who stand for justice.
If you are a northerner, get this into your head.
Your attrocities are numerous and your cup is full.
You guys should be ready to treat human lives as the most important.
Any region that's filled with terror & backwardness ll incur God's wrath!
Meanwhile, you look like a talakanaire online wannabe. You are not paid well.

So poverty and insecurity have not cut their legs to kick?

People who crippled the country are still kicking?

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ygowon:
Make law makers vote in support of Biafra let the Igbos go abeg. Even if the Igbos are landlocked, it would help them to be self reliant.

No igboman is sincerely happy being in a country with alakubar people

If Southeast should become a sovereign nation it will still depend hugely on the Nigeria state to survive.
We shouldn't allow our enemies to dictate our future for us.

The north that should apologise Nigeria for untold hardship they brought upon Nigeria for 8 years.

Any sensible Nigerian should go the opposite direction of the North. Else another failure will be voted into power.

It's very funny how the so-called North (fulani), who are the major cause of the insecurity in Nigeria, have the audacity to be spewing gibberish about which tribe can rule and which can't. These are foreigners from nowhere. We see them as northerners, for the sake... since they've conquered the hausas, and now go by the Hausa-fulani tag.

This landless minority tribe... now feel like they are kingmakers. I don't blame them anyway, I blame the idiotic greedy Southerners who allow themselves to be pawns in their dirty games.

Sweetplum:

I agree. And may nemesis caught up with the northern part of Nigeria.
All the evil they v done, they ll reap them, amen.

Amen!! and may same be the fate of those committing heinous crimes of killing people because of difference in political beliefs in the SE

These daft, hypocritical idiots called CNG. It was ok to trust Buhari with the presidency despite atrocities of Boko Haram and so called bandits. Senseless cows!!

paramakina202:


If Southeast should become a sovereign nation it will still depend hugely on the Nigeria state to survive.
We shouldn't allow our enemies to dictate our future for us.

Do u think if Igbos leave Nigeria, Nigeria will continue to exist?

helinues:


You could have also posted graphics of Igbos activities as well to balance this up..

Sebi truth na bitter leaf to some of you which you must always do whataboutism about

Eish

You need to go and sit your scrawny a.ss down.
I'm yet to see you align with any positive agenda in the life of your sojourn in this platform.
Ibo this, Ibo that, are you so retarded that you wake up carrying people who do not know of your miserable existence on your head.
Guy, go get a life abeg.

So the killings of Boko Haram, fulani herdsmen, jihadists alike should have made the rest of Nigerians not to trust the north. Ndi Ara ndi Ara.

ottersberger:


You need to go and sit your scrawny a.ss down.
I'm yet to see you align with any positive agenda in the life of your sojourn in this platform.
Ibo this, Ibo that, are you so retarded that you wake up carrying people who do not know of your miserable existence on your head.
Guy, go get a life abeg.

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