Arewa Youths Withdraws Quit Notice To Igbos

The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum has withdrawn its quit notice to Igbos living in the northern part of the country.

The coalition of northern youth groups announced this on Thursday after a meeting in Abuja.

In attendance at the meeting were the Governor of Borno State, some Igbo traditional rulers, and elders from the north.

The decision to withdraw the notice comes barely three weeks after the northern youths and Igbo traditional rulers living in the north met in Kano to thrash out the issues threatening the peace.

The group had on June 6 given Igbos three months’ notice to quit northern Nigeria stating that it would allow them to achieve their call for secession.

But the move attracted widespread criticism with the…