Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has warned that persons agitating for secession and the northern groups that issued ultimatum to Igbos risked jail terms as they violated Nigeria’s laws.

Osinbajo gave the warning at a consultative meeting with traditional rulers from the South-East at the Presidential Banquet Hall, Abuja, saying the manner of the agitations, method and objective were wrong, unlawful and clearly violated the nation’s Constitution.

The acting president recalled that many Nigerians had paid the supreme price to keep the country united, saying it would be wrong for men and women of goodwill in this generation to toy with those sacrifices that had been made’’.

Osinbajo maintained that men of goodwill must not tolerate any tendency that would drag the nation in the direction of yet another civil conflict.

He said government and people “must be sensitive to the reasons why there are agitations by the various young men across the various zones of this country.

Osinbajo reiterated Federal Government’s commitment to listening to “all the reasons, the various suggestions and the various agitations and the reasons for those agitations and to ensure that we do justice to all persons regardless of where you are from in this country.

He said the greatness of any people lay in their ability to work together in spite of their differences and the types of offence that had been caused between each other.

The acting president expressed the hope that royal fathers would continue to offer useful suggestions and the right advice to ensure that the country remained united.

Osinbajo will meet with the traditional rulers from the northern part of the country on Monday.