Apex youth organisation in the Niger Delta, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), has told Biafra and Oduduwa secessionists to leave the Ijaw nation out of what they call \u2018their utopian republics\u2019. Chairman, IYC Transition Implementation Committee, Kennedy Olorogun, said this on behalf of the organisation on Saturday. According to him, the Ijaw nation does not
Apex youth organisation in the Niger Delta, the Ijaw Youth Council , has told Biafra and Oduduwa secessionists to leave the Ijaw nation out of what they call ‘their utopian republics’.
According to him, the Ijaw nation does not need to be annexed to other imagined ethnonational territories. Olorogun noted that the situation in the country may have compelled other tribes, groups and ethnic nationalities in the country, such as the Oduduwa and various movements championing the Biafran cause to renew their agitation for separate states.
‘We are seizing this medium to inform the promoters and sponsors of the Oduduwa and Biafra republics that they should not include Ijaw territories in their acclaimed nations,” he said.
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