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Return Home Now, Afenifere Tells Southerners
By: magbytes120 Date: June 11, 2017, 4:34 am
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Following the October 1 ultimatum issued by Arewa Youths Forum
to the people of South-East origin living in the northern parts
of the country to leave the region, the apex Yoruba
socio-cultural organisation , Afenifere, has called on all
Southerners resident there to start returning home.
Rising from an emergency meeting held by the group to discuss
the state of the nation in Lagos on Thursday, Afenifere said all
Southerners should see the quit notice not as meant for Igbo
people alone, but the rest of their counterparts from the
region.
Afenifere chieftain, Senator Femi Okurounmu who was present at
the meeting told Saturday Sun that the quit notice by the Arewa
youths should be taken serious in view of historical experience.
�This quit notice by the northern youths should not be seen by
any wise Southerner as being meant for only people from the
South-East, or that it is an empty threat. These northern youths
meant business, and not only that, they have the backing of the
northern elders, who have not only expressed their support for
the youths, but have also affirmed their backing for the quit
notice given to the South-Easterners. These Northerners should
not be underrated, and one of the major reasons we are insisting
that all Southerners should start coming back to the South now
is that when these attacks on them begin, the Northerners will
attack all Southerners. How are they going to be separate a
Yoruba from Igbo? It is going to be difficult. Southerners
shouldn�t be gullible. They should start coming home now. They
should not wait until the end of the ultimatum. We don�t want a
repeat of 1966-1967 pogrom, when hundreds of people of Southern
origin, especially those from the South-East were massacred in
the North.
Okurounmu further said that Southerners should not be deceived
by the arrest order on the Arewa youths by the Inspector-General
of Police, Idris Ibrahim and Kaduna State governor Mallam Nasir
el-Rufai, saying such order was only meant to give Nigerians the
impression that action was being taken to rein in the youths.
��Have these Arewa youths not been walking the streets free
since the Inspector-General of Police and Governor el-Rufai
ordered their arrest? The IG is a hypocrite. When crisis broke
out in Osun State recently among some Hausa and Yoruba youths,
is it not this same IG that immediately under 24 hours of the
crisis sent mobile policemen to arrest Yoruba youths, while he
left out his Hausa kinsmen? Why is the IG now unable to arrest
these Hausa-Fulani youths who issued the quit notice? We are
just deceiving ourselves, there is no justice in Nigeria. When
an Hausa-Fulani man kills another Nigerian, he has not committed
an offence, but when another Nigerian kills Hausa-Fulani man, he
has committed an offence and must be punished. That is the
Nigeria of today for you��, he remarked.
However, if Nigeria wants to break up, so be it, let it break
up, if it wants to break up. Nigeria will not be the first
country to break up . The defunct Soviet Union broke up, heavens
did not fall, defunct Czechoslovakia broke up, heavens didn�t
fall, and even in Africa, recently Southern Sudan broke away
from Sudan and heavens didn�t fall. So, what�s the big deal if
Nigeria breaks up? It is not compulsory that Nigerians should
live together by force.
On its own part, Yoruba Unity Forum expressed concern over the
development, describing the quit notice as not only provocative,
but also a shameful act.
The forum, in a statement issued by its Secretary-General,
Senator Anthony Adefuye, called for the immediate prosecution of
the Arewa youths.
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