Akpabio asks Igbo youth not to engage in armed struggle against Nigeria

The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has pleaded with the radical of the South East to prolong bid and usher their younker distant from equipped conflict against the Nigerian government.

He made the entreaty astatine the ceremonial of Sir Albert Ikechukwu Nnamani, erstwhile Administrative Secretary of the defunct Oil Mineral Producing Area Development Commission, held successful Ikem, Enugu State.

In a connection made disposable to journalists successful Abuja, Akpabio said improvement thrives lone successful an ambiance of bid and called connected Ndigbo to mentor the younger procreation appropriately.

“For Ndigbo, I privation to plead with you to proceed to support the bid and ticker the younker of today. They don’t recognize politics. They don’t recognize development. You tin lone person improvement successful an country of peace.

“A concern wherever you effort to wrestle powerfulness and effort to asseverate independency done equipped conflict from the Federal Government volition fail. State powerfulness volition ever overwhelm you,” Akpabio said.

Assuring that the parliament is acceptable to legislate for equity successful the South East, helium said: “We are prepared arsenic a parliament to marque the close laws, to dot the i’s and transverse the t’s successful bid for Ndigbo to have, astatine least, an further state.

“So that they volition besides beryllium adjacent to the different zones of the country. That is the committedness we marque and we basal by it.”

Akpabio noted that President Bola Ahmed ...