Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has dismissed the recent open declaration of support for the suspended RUGA settlement scheme by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Senator Walil Jubril, as a means of stability and to end the herdsmen/farmers clashes.

“This is a calculated plot to use his position in PDP as BOT chair to intimidate and harass predominantly PDP Governors in the Southern Nigeria to adopt RUGA settlements in the South,” the group said Thursday in a statement signed by the President General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro.

“Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide is not partisan and will not dictate how PDP run their affairs, but it’s an open secret that PDP BoT Chairman, Senator Walil Jubril, is engaging in anti-party activities, and PDP Governors forum should facilitate the machinery to investigate his secret activities and do the needful through recommendation for the suspension of Sen Walil Jubril and relieve him of his position if found guilty based on his anti-party activities,” the statement said.

The group in the statement also dismissed the recent claim by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that South East Governors have secretly donated land for the RUGA scheme.

It said: “We want to assure our Biafra agitators that there’s no proof anywhere that the South East Governors have the intention of going contrary to their earlier resolutions adopted in their last Enugu meeting, to donate lands secretly for the Suspended RUGA settlements in the South East, irrespective that we are calling on the South East Governors to ensure they are not instigating uproar and civil disobedience through mingling into the affairs of self-determination of Biafra agitators. We should avoid anything that will bring declaration of State of Emergency in any State in the South East, and urge South East Governors to allow the sleeping dog to rest. There’s no gain in using confrontation through State machinery against Biafra agitators, and plead on agitators no eschew violence and maintain non-violent posture of Biafra agitation.

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