Northen youths to withdraw Igbo quit notice

The Arewa Youths Coalition is set to withdraw the October 1 quit notice handed Igbo in the North to leave.

This comes after a meeting  with Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima in Abuja yesterday.Arewa Youth Coalition spokesman Abdulaziz Suleiman told reporters

 “You will hear from us this week.”: “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”.

 “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”.

On his part,Shettima who is the chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, 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.

“I wish to call on the leadership of our brethren in the South Eastern part of the country to equally pick the gauntlet, because it takes two to tango, to take the gauntlet and rein in the excesses of Nnamdi Kanu and his group”.