Sentences with phrase «called for secession»

When Governor Pat Neff vetoed a piece of legislation that would have given West Texas its own college in 1921, newspaper editorial pages actually called for secession.

The Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Honourable Umar Ahmed Imam has criticized those calling for secession, stating emphatically that they are corrupt officials who emanated from a product of a corrupt society.

Not exact matches

No comment is called for here on the basic conditions of the North's secession.

At the height of this fantasy, romantics, Biafra and Oodua, were already swooning about some «South» — after IPOB's Nnamdi Kanu's reported threat of no election in the South East, until IPOB secured its Biafra secession referendum; and former Senator Femi Okurounmu's call for a united southern phalanx against the «Hausa - Fulani» he seems to viscerally hate.

Kalu affirmed that the right of the Igbo had been embedded in the United Nation's charter, which gave them the full right to ask for secession if they were no longer comfortable in living together as one country called Nigeria.

Parade organizers have dedicated the parade to this convicted terrorist, calling for among other things, the complete secession of Puerto Rico from the United States on his behalf.

In 1905 the two artists repurposed Steichen's studio space for photography exhibitions; originally called The Little Galleries of the Photo - Secession, the space became known simply as 291 after its Fifth Avenue address.

The group has previously called for Floridians to pick up arms against the government, fight for secession and revive a white «ethno - state.»