3-MONTHS NOTICE: AREWA YOUTHS BACK-DOWN, CALL FOR PEACE MEETING (VIDEO)

A coalition of northern youth groups with the slogan "Kaduna Declaration", which gave all Igbo residents in any part of the north three months to move to their places of origin, reflected the threat.

They earlier asked northerners living in the east for up to three months to move north.
Group spokesman AbdulAziz Suleiman said: "All northern civil society groups and pressure groups have committed to mobilizing for sustained and coordinated campaigns in their respective state government chambers, The Assembly's State Chambers, the Secretariats of the Council of Local Governments and the traditional palaces increase the pressure for the measures to be taken to ensure the application of the directives contained in this document.

"The North openly calls on the authorities and other national and international actors to recognize this declaration by taking steps to facilitate the final dissolution of this hopeless union that has never been convenient for either party.

"As of June 6, 2017, when this proclamation is signed, the North, a critical actor of the Nigerian project, declares that it will no longer be willing to coexist with the Igbos and will take definitive measures to end the partnership by withdrawing from The current federal arrangement "

But at a turn on Wednesday, Comrade Yerima Shettima, President, Arewa Youth Advisory Forum and Isaac Balami, Arewa Advisory Forum congress, called on Nigerians not to panic.

In a video, Balami said that groups in the North had observed how the problem was "globally".

He said the groups will create a platform to discuss the outrage and condemnation that threatens the threat of eviction.

His words: "This is not the time to discuss separation. We need to get together. Arewa is known for peace.

"It is obvious that the initial approach was not the best. We need to work together as a nation

"I want to tell Nigerians living at home and in the Diaspora that there is hope. This nation is not going anywhere.

"Shettima here wants to make sure that everything he did was in good faith. It's a Nigeria and we're not going anywhere."

Video below..