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OIC Meeting: Why we are opposed to calls for Buhari’s resignation –
Ohanaeze Youths
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo
Youth Wing, OYC, has dissociated itself from the calls for President Muhammadu
Buhari’s resignation.
Ohanaeze had
through its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mazi Chuks Ibegbu said Buhari
owed Nigerians explanation about his trip to Saudi Arabia, for attending the
Organization of Islamic Committee’s meeting barely 24 hours after he was
sworn-in for a second term in office.
Why immediate
attendance of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, meeting in Saudi Arabia
a day after his swearing in? Mr President Buhari owes Nigerians that
explanation.
“This is a secular
country and a leader that wants to be a mullah or fanatic is
free to resign rather than plunge us into a religious crisis,” Ibegbu had said.
Reacting on Monday,
the OYC through its President-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro said the group
was amazed by such resignation call, describing it as “a rhetoric capable of
plunging the nation into a religious war that will consume Igbos living in the
North.”
“We disassociate
ourselves from any call for the resignation of President Buhari few days after
his swearing in, and urge those behind the call to have a rethink, and stop
using Igbo platform for personal vendetta against the Presidency.
“We should be
forming alliances and building bridges across the Niger, than creating enmity
with predominantly Northern Muslims, by calling on President Buhari to resign
on religious grounds. This amounts to fueling religious crisis capable of
putting the lives and properties of Igbos living in the North under threat and
unnecessary tension.
“We call on Vice
President Yemi Osibanjo to as a Pastor, douse all fears by inviting the
Christian Association of Nigeria and the PFN, and assure the Christian
community that in a Secular Nation like Nigeria, everyone is protected,”
Isiguzoro said in the statement.
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