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Southern leaders attack Buhari over comment on Emeka Ojukwu





The Southern Leaders' Forum today accused President Muhammadu Buhari of deploying images of late chief Emeka Ojukwu in his broadcast to minimize demand for renegotiation of the structure of Nigeria.He said that Buhari's claim that both were in agreement in Daura in 2003 that the country should remain united and united, were simple political tricks.
The Southern Leaders' Forum today accused President Muhammadu Buhari of deploying images of late chief Emeka Ojukwu in his broadcast to minimize demand for renegotiation of the structure of Nigeria.He said that Buhari's claim that both were in agreement in Daura in 2003 that the country should remain united and united, were simple political tricks.Buhari had on Monday a national broadcast after a 104-day medical trip to the UK, said he and Ojukwu had agreed many years ago that Nigeria should remain one.Reacting to Buhari's demand, the forum said that the president's comment that the country's unit was not negotiable was out of place.The forum, represented by Chiefs Edwin Clark, Albert Horsefall (South-South); Chief John Nwodo, Prof. Joe Irukwu (Southeast); And Chief Reuben Fasoranti, Chief Ayo Adebanjo (Southwest), spoke in Lagos at a press conference entitled "Only Restructuring Will Guarantee Nigeria's Unity, Peace and Development."Other participants in the event were Prof. Banji Akintoye, Tony Uranta, National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Chief Gani Adams; The meeting between the two could not have been a Sovereign National Conference whose decisions can not be reviewed.We agree with his conclusion that we must remain United, but that does not exclude discussions about the terms and conditions of the union."The assertion that Nigeria's unity is resolute and non-negotiable is not sustainable.Each country is in a daily dialogue and nothing is finally settled in its life.Neble nations are still adjusting the details of the architecture of their existence."If we are established as a nation, we are not going to face the many nation-building crises that afflict us today, which have made it extremely difficult to directly address the problems of growth and development."When the North came out of parliament in 1953 after Chief Anthony Enahoro proposed the motion for independence, he took up Negotiations to bring them back to the union after an eight-point agenda, which was mainly about confederations. "The Southern Leaders' Forum today accused President Muhammadu Buhari of deploying images of late chief Emeka Ojukwu in his broadcast to minimize demand for renegotiation of the structure of Nigeria.He said that Buhari's claim that both were in agreement in Daura in 2003 that the country should remain united and united, were simple political tricks.Buhari had on Monday a national broadcast after a 104-day medical trip to the UK, said he and Ojukwu had agreed many years ago that Nigeria should remain one.Reacting to Buhari's demand, the forum said that the president's comment that the country's unit was not negotiable was out of place.

The forum, represented by Chiefs Edwin Clark, Albert Horsefall (South-South); Chief John Nwodo, Prof. Joe Irukwu (Southeast); And Chief Reuben Fasoranti, Chief Ayo Adebanjo (Southwest), spoke in Lagos at a press conference entitled "Only Restructuring Will Guarantee Nigeria's Unity, Peace and Development."Other participants in the event were Prof. Banji Akintoye, Tony Uranta, National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Chief Gani Adams; Supo Shonibare, Guy Ikokwu, Tony Nyiam and Prof. Walter Ofonagoro.The SLF said, "The meeting between the two could not have been a Sovereign National Conference whose decisions can not be reviewed. We agree with their conclusion that we must remain united, but that does not exclude discussions on the terms and conditions of Union."The assertion that Nigeria's unity is resolute and non-negotiable is not sustainable.Each country is in a daily dialogue and nothing is finally settled in its life.Neble nations are still adjusting the details of the architecture of their existence."If we are established as a nation, we are not going to face the many crises of nation-building that afflict us today, which have made and

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