The Coalition of Northern Groups has called on the National Assembly to halt the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution.
The group asked NASS to organise a referendum that will allow the South-East to exit the country.
Spokesperson for the group, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman who made the demands in Abuja on Thursday said, “We demanded the immediate suspension of the ongoing exercise for the review of the 1999 Constitution and to concentrate on the first priority of determining who and what actually constitutes Nigeria as a nation in the present circumstance in which the Igbo, by taking up arms against the Nigerian state, for the third time, have foreclosed every hope for the rest of us to continue coexisting with them as one nation.”
According to Suleiman, NASS should invoke the doctrine of necessity, organise a referendum to allow people of the South East to decide whether or not they want to remain in the Nigerian federation.
“We further demand that the national assembly should prevail on the Federal Government of Nigeria to invite the United Nations as well as the African Union and ECOWAS, to initiate the process of self-determination to mandate the Biafrans out of the Nigerian union by leveraging on the several relevant international treaties and conventions to which Nigeria is a signatory.
“Today, everyone can see that the diabolical scheme planned and exhibited in the actions and clamours of IPOB, supported morally and politically by the vast majority of the pliant and affrighted Igbo elites, politicians, traditional rulers, business persons, and the larger population of this ethnic group has pushed Nigeria to the precipice.”
