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General News of Monday, 30 December 2019

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Igbo group issued strong warning to Arewa Youth leader

Yerima Shettima Yerima Shettima

The Igbo National Council, INC, has called on the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum and other political leaders in the north to called Yerima Shettima to order before they plunge Nigeria into a political crisis ahead of the presidential election in 2023.

The groups president general, Chilos Godsent, issued a statement on Sunday urging the country to ignore statement made by Yerima Shettima on the elections.

Yerima Shettima had stated that 2023 is not the right time for the country to have an Igbo presidency.

In reaction, INC said in the statement, “Yerima Shettima is the purported leader of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum that some years ago issued quit order to the Igbo people living in the Northern States of Nigeria.

“The same Yerima has in recent times been misinforming ignorant Nigerians that the North has made more sacrifices more than any other tribe in building Nigeria.

“We wish to use this opportunity to set the record straight and properly educate Yerima Shettima and his co-travellers on the wrong part of history, that since the creation of Nigeria no tribe, race or group has made more sacrifices in building Nigeria than the Igbo Race.

“The Igbo race has invested unquantifiable human and material resources to keep Nigeria alive since its creation even to an extent we lost millions of lives during the genocide of 1966, and till date our mineral resources are been plundered and used to fund the North.

“Consequently, in the spirit of reconciliation, fairness, justice and equity, the only geopolitical zone more ripe to produce the President of Nigeria is 2023 is the South-East zone.”