The OYC in a statement issued by its national president, Igboayaka O. Igboayaka said that the Southeast governors displayed “an act of cowardice” by yielding to the pressure from the federal government not to follow on the footsteps of the South West governors.
Igboayaka stated that he has been receiving “a deluge of calls from Ndigbo both home and abroad denouncing the Reacting on the “awkward decision” of the Southeast governors.
According to him, the groundswell of opinion in the Southeast and among Ndigbo in the Diaspora was in favour of “a viable, strong and technology-driven native regional security outfit”.
“The Igbo youth organization, therefore, resolved that the northern political mafias cannot decide for Ndigbo, just as Amotekun was a collective resolution of the Yorubas, without the interference of the powers that be,” the OYC leader said.
He vowed that “there was no going back on the planned regional security outfit as we will not continue to entrust our lives and properties in the hands of the Nigerian security authorities”.
The OYC further urged governors of Igbo extraction to, “within 30 days reconsider their decision and commence the setting up of a regional security team that will be backed by the South East House of Assembly”.
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