The Eze-Igbo, Kaduna, Igwe Sylvanus Aneke has described the recent quit notice to Igbos in the north as the handiwork of some northern elders.
He was reported by Sun News as regretting that the elders who had seen war, are now the ones fanning its embers.
“Well, you see everybody has his own freedom. We know some elders are behind them,” he said. “When a bird is dancing on the road, there must be someone drumming, we know that. Of course we cannot be happy that elders who know the consequences of war, who were there, and saw what even Nigeria had to pay to keep Nigeria one are part of the plot.
The Eze-Igbo noted that it would be foolish to ask the Igbos to go after lives and properties have been lost when during the civil war when the Igbos wanted to go.
“If we wanted the Igbo to go when they went, why do we have to lose lives to bring them back? So if Nigerians lost lives on both sides to be one, it’s so unfortunate for any adult who knew the time to still wish that there’ll be a second war in Nigeria.”
A coalition of northern youths had earlier this month given a three-month ultimatum to Igbos in the north, citing their agitation for the creation of an independent state of Biafra.