Ohanaeze Youth Wing on Friday expressed solidarity with
Ijaw youths in the ongoing activities to commemorate the 50th
memorial of late Ijaw icon Jasper Boro and call for restructuring the
federation.
Chief Chinedu Arthur-Ugwa Coordinator of Ohanaeze Youth
Wing in South South newsmen in Yenagoa
that the group had enjoyed a harmonious relationship with Ijaw people in Niger
Delta.
He said that Ohanaeze youths were participating in the
week long activities including
processions, public lectures exhibitions lined up for the 50th
anniversary of Boro’s demise.
He noted that the youths were desirous of building
bridges of peace and friendship across various regions of the country and hoped
to actualise a restructured federation before the 2019 general elections.
The youth leader who is a member of the National
Executive Committee of Ohanaeze Youth Wing said that its parent body Ohanaeze
Ndigbo believes in restructuring and has scheduled a rally to mobilise support
for it.
He said that the restructuring rally scheduled for May
21, 2018 at Awka in Ananmbra is to sensitise Ndigbo on the merits f
restructuring and to reposition Igbos in a restructured Nigerian Federation.
On the threat by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
to disrupt the restructuring rally, Arthur-Ugwa said that the national
leadership of Ohanaeze Youth Wing has urged IPOB to embrace dialogue and
consultation.
“Ohanaeze Youths under the leadership Arthur Obiora has stepped
in to fill the vacuum created by the lack of leadership at the youth wing of
Ohanaeze and he is poised to work for unity and progress of Igbo youths..
“And today following the successful inauguration of the
executive we now have a direction. We have asked IPOB to join us to work
towards getting to champion the cause of Ndigbo within Nigeria.
“We believe that the aspirations of the Igbos can be
realised through peaceful and lawful means and we have confidence in the Chief
Nnia Nwodo led Ohanaeze Ndigbo to achieve the goals of our people,” Arthur-Ugwa
said.
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