Osinbajo delivers powerful speech to Igbo leaders

  Osinbajo delivers powerful speech to Igbo leaders 
 - Professor Yemi Osinbajo met with Igbo leaders at the Aso Rock Villa

 - The meeting was a sequel to one he had with northern leaders over the need for unity in the country
 - The acting president assured Nigerians that the government would protect them all the time Acting president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has sent a strong message to Igbos assuring them and other Nigerians of the government’s protection in any part of the country. The acting president gave this assurance when he met with Igbo leaders on Wednesday, June 14 in Abuja. NAIJ.com had earlier reported that Osinbajo met with northern leaders on Tuesday, June 13 and followed it up with a meeting with Igbo leaders. 

Today’s meeting, the second in the series, is with you, Leaders of Thought from the Southeast. After this, I will meet with Religious and Traditional Leaders from the North and from the Southeast, on Friday and Monday respectively. And then, in the final consultation, next week Thursday, all of us, from North and South, will come together in the same room, for further engagement and consultation. I also plan at some time in between to meet with the Nigerian Governors Forum 

These consultations are necessary, and important, because of recent events in the country. You are all aware that there have been loud and sometimes hostile agitations by youth in the southeast, calling for secession of the region from Nigeria. Then there was the recent ultimatum issued by a group of youth from the North, asking all south-easterners living in the North to leave by October 1 this year. Both of these expressions and agitations from both sides, have been attended with some controversial and hateful vituperations including patently illegal and violence-inducing remarks.