EBONYI State Governor and Chairman of the Southeast Governors’ Forum (SGF) Dave Umahi has ruled out the possibility of governors in the region apologising
EBONYI State Governor and Chairman of the Southeast Governors’ Forum Dave Umahi has ruled out the possibility of governors in the region apologizing to the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra .
He stressed that the group often made empty threats and that no responsible government would allow a proscribed group to promote lawlessness.According to him, it was too early for him and his colleagues from the Southeast to start talking of whatever ambitions they may have on who succeeds President Buhari in 2023.
Noting that the Sam Mbakwe Airport, Owerri, being the alternative airport, would encounter come security challenges, Umahi said efforts would be made with the Federal Government to secure the adjoining roads to the airport across the region. Umahi said: “The mistake people make is that leaders in this country including governors are not supposed to be talking carelessly, security matters are not discussed on the pages of newspapers.
“It’s not as if we have not been doing things, we’ve been doing things but we can’t begin to shout on the pages of newspapers on what we are doing about security.” “IPOB said their anger was that we proscribed IPOB, we didn’t have the powers to proscribe IPOB but we have the power to Proscribe the activities of IPOB at the time we did to put the country into one to save the lives of the northern people living in the Southeast and to save the lives of South people living in the north.
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