President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Kaduna State
Governor, Nasir El-Rufai for ordering the arrest of leaders of the Coalition of
Northern Youths, CNY, for asking Igbos to vacate the North in three months.
Buhari’s commendation was disclosed by the Minister of
Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Wednesday.
The Minister, who took to his twitter handle, @MohammedLai
wrote: “The President Buhari commends the Kaduna state government for arresting
those miscreants. Jobless youths.
“The Buhari Administration vehemently condemns such a wicked
plan by faceless Northern youths to evict Igbos from the North. This is their
country na.”
Recall that the spokesperson of a Northern Coalition group,
Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY, Abdulaziz Suleiman, had ordered Igbos to
vacate the region in three months.
Speaking yesterday, Suleiman had said the entire Northern
Nigeria was tired of coexisting with the Igbos and asked that “all Igbos
currently residing in any part of Northern Nigeria are hereby served notice to
relocate within three months and all northerners residing in the East are
advised likewise.
“The persistence for the actualization of Biafra by the
unruly Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria has lately assumed another alarming twist
which involved the forceful lockdown of activities and denial of other people’s
right to free movement in the South-East by the rebel Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) and its overt and covert sponsors.”
By Seun Opejobi
