The Coalition of Northern Group, (CNG), yesterday declared that the North would no longer remain idle when next its people are deliberately targeted and massacred in the South-East region, or anywhere in Nigeria.
Its spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, who made this known to newsmen at a press conference, which was held in Kano State, said that the power to release the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB)’s separatist leader, Nnamdi Kano, only wrested and vested in the Judiciary.
According to the CNG spokesperson, “the North will no longer remain idle when its people are deliberately targeted and massacred while the perpetrators are shielded by criminal tribal bigots who pose as leaders”.
Suleiman, who was flanked by top chieftains of CNG at the conference, further demanded the arrest and prosecution of Igbo leaders angling to secure Nnamdi Kanu’s release from the gulag to be treated as an accomplice.
The Northern Group, during the conference, tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to reclaim his statesmanship by refusing to be cajoled into interfering with the standard principle of separation of power.
He warned President Buhari that the North has realised that he places a premium on the pursuit for a vote than he does for the sanctity of the lives of Northerners and security personnel who stake their lives in the service to the nation.
The Northern group warned that “any attempt by President to accede to the demand to release, without prosecuting Kanu will inadvertently reduce Nigeria to a lawless state where criminals of all shades will commit crimes against the country and ask their traditional rulers and other regional or tribal leaders to press for their release“.
