Former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani, has advised Igbo people to stop calling on their people living in the north to return home.

According to him, the Igbos living in the north are doing well and are not moved by such calls on social media.

Sani came to the conclusion after attending an Igbo Day celebration in Kaduna, which he described as colourful.

He shared on X, "I had the privilege of attending one of the Igbo day celebration in Kaduna as an invited http://guest.It was a colourful event studded with businessmen, entrepreneurs, academics and traders many of whom were born here or lived here for decades. None of them had ever contemplated leaving the north because of these Social Media fireworks. I will advise some of their tribesmen calling on them to “return home” to stop wasting their time. You cannot be renting a room in Manchester or Minneapolis and telling a man with shopping malls and estates in Kaduna or Kano to ‘return home’.We are ok together here."

X user @Elbeastierero said, "It was exactly like this until the same media brandished the 66 coup and Igbo coup and some blood thirsty northern men turned on them. They became so enraged and felt so betrayed, they decided to darn the consequences and made decisions that led to a war they can't win."

@Uche_C_Thomas said, "Yet there are many Igbo people who have died from the social media fireworks and the sword of the Jihadists. Calling them to return home is to avoid what happened in 1966. After the pogrom against Igbo people in the North, they returned to become refugees in their own land."

@AkanMkpah said, "I think the points you stated are what some people don't consider when they're trying to address some issues. When someone is born and raised in a particular place, that place is home to the person, and it gets worse when they marry from that place and establish businesses or even work there."

@nnamdiabana_ said, "Igbos say that when you don't find a place to rest your hands, you rest them on your knees. Igbos are everywhere, however, when it comes to a threat to life, they're ready to leave all they've worked for and start all over again. We say “ndụ bú isi” (Life first)."

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