Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ebonyi
State, Dave Umahi has stated that it is within the fundamental human rights of people
to agitate.
Governor Umahi made this disclosure while fielding questions
on behalf of the South-East delegation that met with the Acting President,
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, in a closed-door session at the Old Banquet Hall of the
Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said that the meeting was not about the Indegenous People
of Biafra, IPOB, but on the unity of the country.
He said, “The meeting is not about IPOB, it is about to
stressed the need for security of lives and properties of Nigerians all over
Nigeria and to stress the need for a united, honest, fair and equitable
Nigeria. That was what the meeting was about.
“It was a wonderful meeting and the message we taking back
is that there is hope for a united and peaceful Nigeria and everybody should
work hard. We emphasis the need for everybody to restrain from making hate
statements. We should be making statements that will be binding us together,
statements of love, statements of unity, and statements of hope and of course
we should also work very hard.”
On the message the delegations would be sending to the
agitators, he said, “Everybody has a right to agitate but we emphasis the need
for peaceful agitation. Even you agitate, your wife agitates at home that the
feeding money is not enough, so it is fundamental right but is the manner you
go about it. So it is not an issue that cannot be resolved.”
By Ameh Comrade Godwin
