Arewa Youth Faults IPOB sit-at-home policy
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has intimated the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to keep its sit-at-home policy in the Southeast.
The National President of the forum, Yerima Shettima’s comment, follows a call by IPOB that the Middle Belt and Oduduwa Nation agitators should join in shutting down Nigeria. Shettima noted that the Southeast could sit at home for ten years but should stay away from the North.
The pro-Biafra group has said it will shut down Nigeria for one month if its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is not produced in court on October 28.
However, the AYCF leader said the planned action by IPOB will be a deliberate attempt to worsen the security challenges in the country.
In a statement he signed and forwarded to DAILY POST on Tuesday, Shettima stated that the North would not be a party to “a deliberate, politically-motivated plan to undermine or worsen the nation’s current security challenges.”
He added that the North would resist IPOB’s move to “export” its activities to them.
He remained the actions of the Southeast governours, saying they seemed okay with the activities of the pro-Biafra agitators in the region. On that note, he said: “We hope they will continue with the sit-at-home for another ten years, and we wish them the very best of luck.
“We know the southeast is IPOB’s home but exporting their activities to the North will be faced with massive resistance from all lovers of peace in the North.”
The AYCF leader further called on Northern governors to ensure that IPOB does not inject the region with their activities.
He stressed that: “We call on northern governors to step up action in order to ensure this outlawed terror gang called IPOB does not infiltrate the region. We also expect the governors to ensure that any northerner who shuts down his shop in solidarity with IPOB, that shop should be sealed forever.
“And for the avoidance of doubt, we will not fold our arms and watch the North get further destabilized by a violent strategy, whether in Kogi, Benue, Plateau, Niger or any state in Northern Nigeria because our hands are already full with challenges of insecurity and we are praying fervently day and night to find lasting peace”.
