Respected Igbo leader, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has said that Ndigbo in Lagos will henceforth desist attacks and killings targeted at them in Lagos State.
Iwuanyanwu said this while condemning incidents of harassment, intimidation and killing of Ndigbo during the just concluded general elections in Nigeria.
In his reaction on Saturday, Iwuanyawu declared that the Igbo in Lagos will resist any further attempt to suppress them or take their lives.
He spoke at a town hall meeting to mark Anambra Governor Chief Charles Soludo’s first year in office at the International Conference Centre in Awka.
He said: “I want to make our people in Lagos know that on Wednesday, I called a meeting of Ohanaeze council of elders worldwide. And we express (sic) the events in Lagos.
“I want to tell you that we have resolved that never, never again can we allow anybody to take the life of any innocent Igbo person.
“All of us are going to fight the person, we are going to fight the person. Never again!
“We are in Nigeria, and we have invested in Nigeria. We are not going to take the pressure of telling us to go, we are not going anywhere.
“I want to tell those in Lagos to realise that there is no war between us and Yorubas…(violent) Yorubas are just political rascals. We are going to handle them,” he stated.
Iwuanyanwu further disclosed that elders had directed the Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to set up a commission of enquiry into the Lagos incident.
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