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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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