IN PICTURES: PRESIDENT BUHARI MEETS IGBO LEADERS, VISITS NIGER DELTA TOMORROW

President Buhari receives South East Group for Change led by Senator Ken Nnamani in Statehouse on 31st May 2016.

Twenty-four hours after the bloody Biafra Day protests, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with some Southeast leaders at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

The Monday protests shook Onitsha, Owerri, Aba, Abakaliki, Enugu, Asaba, Ikom and Port Harcourt. Two policemen and five protesters were killed in Asaba. The military said soldiers were injured in Onitsha where it confirmed the death of five protesters.

Many of the protesters were arrested.

The 18-man delegation, led by former Senate President Ken Nnamani, included All Progressives Congress (APC) National Auditor George Moghalu; Senators Ifeanyi Ararume and Osita Izunaso and former House of Reps member Sharon Ikeazor; former Executive Vice-Chairman of Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) Ernest Ndukwe.

Also in the team were the APC National Vice-Chairman (Southeast), Emma Eneukwu; Chief Austin Edeze; Dr. Uzoma Obiyo and Mr. Chris Akomas.
The leaders arrived in a bus belonging to the Ken Nnamani Leadership Institute. They met privately with the President under the aegis of Southeast Group for Change. The delegation ýdeclined to speak with reporters at the end of the meeting.

As he walked past reporters, Nnamani only replied to the question on whether Biafra came up for discussion during the meeting with: “No, no, not now.”

No official statement was issued on the meeting.

President Buhari is scheduled to flag-off the clean-up of Ogoni land tomorrow. He had, in his Democracy Day broadcast, reiterated his administration’s commitment to implementing the United Nations Environment Programme Report on Ogoni land.