– As tension continues in Nigeria over the recent quit notice to Igbo people in the north, Femi Falana, makes a revelation
– Falana, a human rights lawyer, said he was making the information public adding that it was not nice for a person living in Lagos to sponsor such in the north
The person who actually sponsored the quit notice to Igbo people in the northern part of Nigeria recently resides in Lagos, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has revealed.
Speaking at a press briefing organized by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on the agitations by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Falana noted that the youths who made the threat actually had a sponsor.
He also recalled how former vice chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Prof Ango Abdullahi once made a statement over the brutal killing of four students of the institution how his utterance allegedly led to the protests by the Nigerian students and the arrest of eight students of University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) by the Gen Ibrahim Babangida’s military regime.
Falana did not however reveal the real identity of the person
Falana reportedly said: “The recently concluded election in the UK, two weeks ago, seven Nigerians emerged as Legislators, can we repeat that, can we look at the challenges before us and stop following those ones trying to divide us?
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“This information is very crucial to all of us and I want to say this publicly.
“The man who is giving quit notice (to the Igbos to leave north) does not live in the north, he lives in Lagos; he is a Lagos man. So to stay in Lagos and be giving quit notices is not the answer.
“On May 23, 1986, young people, four of them were killed in the Ahmadu Bello University because somebody had said we are against coup.
“Ango Abdullahi was the vice chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University when these students were killed by the police, he came out and said only four students were killed.
“That
“One of the universities where that protest was very successful was the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
“Please listen to me, the man who led the protest was late Chima Ubani, what happened? The state did not like the case that it was a national protest against the killing in ABU.
“What did they do? They didn’t arrest the students who were protesting in the North.
“They didn’t arrest the students who were protesting in the west, (Ibrahim) Babangida regime went for Chima Ubani and arraigned him and eight of his colleagues under a military rule that required that they be sentenced to death.
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“I left Lagos to go to Enugu to defend those men. We got them freed when they returned to campus, the vice chancellor expelled them.
“Again, I went to court and got them freed. Please this story is very important.
“A Hausa vice chancellor invited the police and they killed young Hausa students, four of them.
“Nigerian students protested and an Igbo young man led that protest in the east against injustice, a Yoruba man in the West to free them.
“So we must look at those things that the elites are using to divide our people. Injustice is injustice, so there no nation without challenges.”
ZENITHBLOG.com had reported earlier that governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have asked the federal government to commence negotiations with all agitators in Nigeria.
According to the governors, this would help quell the continued agitations across major parts of the country.
Watch Acting President Yemi Osinbajo talk glowingly about Nigeria in the heat of agitations:
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