He also said the size of the land Igbo presently occupy in the North is more than the entire South East geopolitical zone.
Speaking in an interview with
Daily Trust on the agitation for secession by Igbo groups and the quit notice by some northern groups, Kwankwaso said none of the millions of Igbo in the North would support the breakup of Nigeria.
Kwankwaso, who chairs the Senate Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs, said the agitation at both sides does not portray the country in good light among the comity of nations.
He said there was urgent need for all stakeholders in the country to put hands on deck to ensure peace.“The unity and development of the country.
Kwankwaso said during his tenure as governor, a layout known as ‘New Enugu’ was carved out in Kano for the Igbo, saying the Igbo are more comfortable there than their states of origin.
On the quit notice by some northern youths, he said the general consensus in the North was that the country is better as one family.
Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai on Tuesday said he would ensure the arrest of the Arewa youths who issued a quit notice to Igbo in the North no matter how long it takes.
El-Rufai who stated this while receiving leaders of the Igbo Delegate Assembly and Northern Igbo Chiefs who paid him a visit at Government House in Kaduna said the youths would be arrested and prosecuted to serve as a deterrent to others.
He, however, called on the Igbo leaders to prevail on their youths to stop making statements capable of dividing Nigeria.
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