Ihuoma Chiedozie, Enugu
The Ohanaeze Youth Council, the youth
wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Tuesday said it had sent a petition to the
United Nations, demanding ‘special protection’ for Igbo in the North.
OYC, the umbrella body of all pan-Igbo
youth associations, in the letter to the UN, also called for the
commencement of steps towards a referendum in Igboland “to finally
determine the fate of their people.”
The Ohanaeze youth wing disclosed this in a statement in Enugu on Tuesday.
The development was a response to a
letter in which a coalition of northern youth groups asked the Acting
President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to allow the Igbo to secede from
Nigeria.
The northern youths, in the letter,
urged the Acting President to organise a referendum in Igboland over the
agitation for Biafra.
PUNCH.
