Chairman of Southeast Governors Forum and Ebonyi state number one man Engr. David Umahi Sunday told Igbo people living in all parts of the country to remain peaceful while they go about their legitimate businesses without fear of any sort of molestation.
Governor Umahi disclosed this while reacting to a video making the rounds of a certain young man believed to be Yoruba indigene who had issued 48 hours ultimatum for Igbo people living in their land to vacate, threatening to deal with them should they fail to comply with the ultimatum by Monday, October 26, 2020.
A press statement by Umahi’s media aide, Francis Nwaze, quoted the governor to have addressed youths on Saturday in Ohaozara council area of the state, after inspecting the police stations destroyed by hoodlums in the guise of #EndSARS protesters.
The statement reads, “I want to tell all our people wherever they are in Nigeria, to remain where they are, to remain very peaceful, not to join any protest.
“I saw online yesterday, where one man that is not living in the country and claims to be from a very peace-loving extraction of the Yoruba, was threatening the Igbos in Lagos and I want to ask the Igbos in Lagos to ignore it.
“I have spoken with leaders from the west, and they have assured that all our people in the western part of the country are safe and we should disregard the empty threat.
“I want to assure every ethnic group living in the southeast, including the Yorubas to go about their businesses very peacefully.
“If there is any threat to any of them, they should immediately let our Governors and the security agencies know.
“As Igbos, we believe in one Nigeria, we believe in a country where justice, equity and fairness will thrive. We believe that together, we are bigger, better and stronger.
“I want to appeal to the Igbos across the country, to pull out of every protest. The constitutional protest had taken place, hoodlums had hijacked the peaceful protest.”
