There Are Dozens Separatist Groups In South-East Region, Says Abaribe

Senate Minority Chief, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, says there are dozens of separatist teams within the south-east area of the nation.

Press Informant reviews that, Abaribe acknowledged this on Channels Tv’s Political Paradigm, the place he lamented that the main focus has all the time been on the Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB).

“One of many largest issues the media has is that they tag every little thing IPOB,” Abaribe who’s a lawmaker mentioned on the programme which aired on Tuesday. ‘Within the South-East, you received’t imagine that there are greater than 30 totally different separatist organisations – IPOB, the Motion for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), there are such a lot of and every considered one of them comes again to the identical factor.

“Why you’re having separatist agitations in every single place in the present day within the West, within the South, within the South-South, is that some persons are unable to handle our variety, that’s simply the actual fact.”

Abaribe made the remarks amid heightened requires secession not only for the breakaway of components of the South-East, but additionally for the Yoruba nation.

Abaribe believes these calling for secession are merely protesting the marginalisation of their individuals and demanding that their grievances be addressed.

The lawmaker requested the federal government to dialogue with them to revive calm and peace in varied components of the nation.

In accordance with Abaribe, IPOB has clarified that its sit-at-home order is barely efficient when its chief goes to courtroom and there was some type of compliance with the directive.

“It ought to fear the federal government if a non-state motion is complied with on this method, it takes us again to what I mentioned originally that there’s want to take a seat and speak with these individuals,” the senator mentioned.

“There’s no one from the South-East that I do know, who doesn’t really feel that the best way the individuals from the South-East are handled in the present day, that there’s something basically fallacious which needs to be resolved.”

Abaribe was later requested if he would settle for the provide to be the following presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) within the 2023 elections, and what Nigerians ought to count on if he’s elected to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.

Abaribe, in his response, mentioned, “I’d if it falls on me. Inside six months, all this stuff (Nigeria’s issues) shall be a factor of the previous.”