Gulak: Northern coalition asks Igbos to leave Nigeria

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), has alleged that the assassination of Ahmed Gulak, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in Imo State, is a wider plan by the people of Igbo extraction to replicate the ugly events of 1966.

IDOMA VOICE reported that Ahmed Gulak, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was killed in Imo State on Sunday 30 May (Biafra Remembrance Day).

The coalition said that Gulak’s murder was an indication that the North can no longer continue to coexist with people of Igbo extraction in Nigeria.

In a statement released by its spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, on Sunday, CNG claimed that people of the Southeast are funding “gangs” like the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) to cause havoc.

CNG said it is no longer in doubt that the “violent rascality by the IPOB, the ESN and other assortments of armed Igbo gangs is funded, fully supported and emboldened by every component of the Igbo society at home and in the Diaspora.”

It added that: “The CNG considers it an insult to our collective sensibilities and ordinary rules of decency to expect other parts of the country, particularly the North, to continue to coexist as one country with the Igbo as federating partners.i

“The coordinated incessant attacks on police formations in Imo, Ebonyi, Aba, Ibadan, Enugu, Anambra and most recently the police headquarters in Kwara and Sunday’s cold blooded assassination of Ahmed Gulak, a prominent northern leader, are part of a wider plan by the Igbo to replicate the ugly events of 1966 and the more reason why we cannot be reasonably expected to live with them as a nation any longer.”