Founder of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, and its current Board of Trustees Chairman, Chekwas Okorie, has described the call for the creation of Anioma, Orlu and Etiti states as legitimate.
But he described the call, in the face of the obvious and deliberate obstacles contained in the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended), as mere political grandstanding.
But he described the call, in the face of the obvious and deliberate obstacles contained in the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended), as mere political grandstanding.
Okorie also described the killings in the South-East as generally self-inflicted and unfortunate, saying the governors of the South-East geopolitical zone are compelled to deploy scarce resources that should have been used for other developmental purposes to combat the killing and kidnapping scourge.
He appealed to the Tinubu administration to synergize more with the South-East governors to fight the criminals that perpetrate these evil acts.
He said: “I strongly believe that President Tinubu would score the bull’s eye if he summoned the political will to exercise his constitutionally guaranteed special presidential dispensation to direct the Minister of Justice to enter a nolle prosequi in court in the matter of Nnamdi Kanu and other Igbo prisoners of conscience whose only offence is that they were agitating for the liberty and self-determination of their people.
“The insecurity and associated disturbances in the Southeast will be largely resolved when Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is released unconditionally.”
Reacting to the Igbo-Must-Go campaign, Okorie expressed gladness that many well-meaning Nigerians at all the strata of the society in unison condemned what he called the highly subversive, inciting and incendiary provocative call by unpatriotic elements for the Igbo to exit from Lagos.
He said: “However, I am worried that the response of both the federal and Lagos State governments to this unprovoked threat is lackadaisical and suggestive of certain levels of complicity and tolerance.
“I see no reason why President Tinubu has not demanded the resignation of his aide, Mr. Onanuga. I am not impressed by the feeble condemnation of the offensive tweets of the sponsors of Lagospedia. The Lagos State government ought to have apprehended and prosecuted the culprits to serve as a deterrent.”
