President Muhammdu Buhari on Friday met with the cream of leaders from the Southeast geopolitical zones in the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja.
The team from Igboland was made up of traditional and religious leaders.
The leader of the delegation was Hon. Mbazulike Amaechi, while members included a former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, the Co-Chair of Interfaith Dialogue Forum for Peace, Bishop Sunday Onuoha, Mr. Tagbo Amaechi, and Chief Barr. Goddy Uwazurike.
Others who made the team were the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, and Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajuiba.
Those with President Buhari on the government team were the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, the National Security Adviser, NSA Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd,).
The topics discussed at the meeting were not disclosed. Those at the meeting refrained from speaking with journalists after their parley.
Some analysts however believe the meeting would have centred on two key issues now on the front burner in the southeast region. The first is the rising level of insecurity in the region. The second, according to them, could be the detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, the group clamouring for the independence of the region.
Recently, the Attorney–General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, hinted that the government had not foreclosed the possibility of a political solution to the logjam created by Kanu’s detention.
