Acting President Osinbajo and Kaduna
State governor, Nasir El-Rufai had at the wake of the declaration on the
6th of June ordered the arrest of those behind the quit notice and
their sponsors to serve as deterrent to others, an order yet to be
effected. The coalition in a statement signed by its Speaker, Mohammed
Salihu in Kaduna on Friday also faulted the elders from the region who
supported the October 1 ultimatum issued to Igbo to vacate the region.
The statement reads in part, “Acting
president should move ahead and order the arrest of all those behind
this plot and even Biafra agitators and bring them to book. While the
NSA should be sacked and the DG –SSS, I.G for failing to apprehend all
those behind Kaduna declaration.
“If no arrest is made to serve as a
lesson to others, next episode will be a full scale war and lives and
properties will be destroyed by the followership of ember of disunity.
What makes America great is the supremacy of her citizens, the unity of
Nigeria is not negotiable and can’t be left in the hands of misguided
rascals.
“While the sack of the security chiefs
should be treated with dispatch because whosever descends into the arena
of conflict will not escape the dust of the encounter, we should
question the character of some of our elders we found their effusions
rather too insensitive to bear especially in a country that is sitting
on a delicate balance.