… Nigeria’s unity not negotiable – Okorocha
From George Onyejiuwa, Owerri
INDIGENOUS people of Biafra has, on behalf of director of Radio Biafra, dispatched petition to Amnesty International over the arrest and detention of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.
This is coming at a time when Imo State Governor and Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors’ Forum, Rochas Okorocha said Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable.
It was gathered that IPOB submitted the petition at the India office of amnesty International.
Meanwhile, Okorocha, while condemning protest over Kanu’s arrest maintained that the unity of the Nigeria is not negotiable, stressed that the agitation for Biafra was diversionary.
Okorocha said the protests were highly regrettable “especially when it was clear that such violent protests in the name of Biafra would not add any value to the development of the South-East and the progress of the people of the area.
“Governors and leaders of the South-East condemn the protests, especially when they were carried out in the name of Biafra. If a section of the people in the South-East or even the whole people in the geo-political zone protest over the bad shape of federal roads or protest over total negligence of the geo-political zone, every governor and leader in the area would support that but not to protest over an issue that is neither here nor there.
“The South-East is an integral part of Nigeria and the governors and leaders from the area so much believe in the unity of the country and would always work towards sustaining that unity. As far as the governors and leaders of the South-East are concerned, those behind the campaign for Biafra have their ulterior motive, which has nothing to do with corporate interest of Ndi-Igbo in Nigeria of our collective dream,” Okorocha said.
Okorocha, called on those behind the protests on the basis of Biafra to give peace a chance.