The leader of Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, AYCF, Yerima
Shettima has said that the leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB,
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is being influenced by hard drugs and as a result, behaves
like a madman.
Shettima said his recent decision to force Igbos out of the
Northern region of the country was reached solely because of activities and
comments by the IPOB leader against Nigeria, the North and president Muhammadu
Buhari.
The AYCF leader, who recently asked Igbos in the North to
ignore the quit notice he earlier issued to them, told the Sun that Nnamdi Kanu
was getting out of hands.
He said, “This man [Kanu] came from nowhere. He is never our
class in struggles. I don’t know where he started his struggle, but he came out
and within one year and suddenly because unfortunately the government made it
easy for him to become popular; otherwise, Kanu is not an issue.”
Shettima said the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration made a
big mistake when his governmnet arrested Nnamdi Kanu.
He further blamed, “The government to an extent; to have
even in the first place arrested this man, somebody who is being influenced by
drugs.
“Who is Kanu in the circle of struggles? So to me it is high
time when somebody behaves like a mad man and you behave like a gentleman you
realize that this gentleman is getting out of hand undermining everybody,
abusing everybody.
“You cannot… I am proudly a northerner and that’s my
identity. I cannot be a leader at my level and allow this man to be talking and
abusing the sensibilities of my people and you expect me to fold my hands. As a
leader of the youths, it’s impossible.
“We cannot fold our hands when after Jonathan government, no
organization like IPOB came on board to abuse that government, now suddenly
because we have a government of northern extraction under the leadership of
Muhammadu Buhari we fold our hands and allow somebody to undermine that
government and abuse the sensibility .We did everything, even MASSOB found it
difficult to manage the young man the way he is going about it.
“A man who few years ago Ralph Uwazurike employed to work
for him suddenly became a tiger and became a tool against the collective
interest of the Igbo. Now, nobody can control him. Even the governors and the
Eastern leaders this boy has succeeded in holding them to ransom. They are
scared of talking for fear of attack from those jobless youths around him.
“Suddenly they folded their hands. And you expect us other
Nigerians to fold our hands when somebody who has dual citizenship is trying to
mess up the country?
“From UK to come and mess up the country? No, we’ll ensure
that we protect the integrity of Nigeria to make sure that we remain together.
No; this is unacceptable.
“My recent decision was borne out of frustration with this
young man who goes around abusing my identity, my community, my people,
undermining a country called Nigeria. I am a strong Nigerian, proudly a
Nigerian.”
Source: Dailypost
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