Breaking: 72 Hours Quit Notice: Call Your Youths To Order, Yoruba Leaders To Northern Elders.

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Following a 72-hour ultimatum issued by Arewa youths for Yoruba ethnic group to leave the 19 northern states, Yoruba leaders yesterday warned of consequences of such ultimatum and asked the northern leaders to call their youths to order.

The ultimatum by the Arewa youths was in response to a declaration of Yoruba nation last Wednesday by Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho who also advised his kith and kin in the north to start coming back home. Igboho did not however ask the northerners living in the South West to leave the region but merely stated that the Yoruba no longer wished to be part of Nigeria in view of grave injustice done to the region by the Nigerian government.

Responding to Igboho’s declaration, the Arewa Youth Assembly in a statement signed yesterday by its spokesman, Mohammed Salihu Danlami, said Igboho should, in the next 72 hours, evacuate his people from the North or they would help him to do so.

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In the statement, Arewa youths quoted Igboho as having said it was time for Yoruba nation and would no longer accommodate and accept the presence of northerners.

According to them, “This is despite the fact that the constitution of the country has made it crystal clear that any Nigerian can live in any part of the country irrespective of his or her religious and tribal leaning. The Arewa youth Assembly still affirms its position as a law abiding civil youth organization. Notwithstanding, it will not fold its arm and watch innocent Nigerians being threatened by individuals who clearly have no regard and respect for the law.

As such, we will like to bring to the notice of Mr Igboho that since it is he who wants his people out of the North to form a Yoruba nation, we will make it easy for him by asking Mr Igboho to provide a means of transportation to convey his people to the southwest.

“We are hereby giving him the ultimatum of 72hours to move his people out or we will be forced to take necessary actions by personally taking the responsibility of getting his people back home. Igboho has continuously threatened the lives and properties of Northerners residing in the southwest for no reason. We have kept quite for the sake of peace and for respect of the laws of our country. But as Mr Igboho rightly said, enough is enough, he either calls himself and his accomplices to order or force us to retaliate the best way we know how.

“It is in the light of this recent event that we wish to call on the Northern elders, traditional rulers and all security agencies to support us in accomplishing this task of evacuating the Yoruba out of the 19 Northern States and the FCT Abuja, making it a very peaceful exercise devoid of loss of lives and destruction of properties or hijack by hoodlums to prevent the re-occurrence  of the EndSARS protest,” they said.

In their immediate reaction to the 72-hour ultimatum, the Yoruba leaders cautioned the northern youths against beating the drum of war and warned of consequences of such action.

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