The President of Arewa Youth Consultative Council (AYCF) Shettima Yerima, has said that its group will sue the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB to court, based on his claims that IPOB is spreading lies that Northerners were planning to attack Igbos and Yorubas despite his rebuttal.
The northern group leader in a statement he issued on Saturday, claims that there were plans to set the Northern part of Nigeria against the South.
Yerima called IPOB racist and supremacist organization that feeds on propaganda”, ask Nigerians to join hands in moving the country to a greater level of honor and prosperity.
The statement reads in part: “The propaganda put together by illegal and secessionist groups” was a move to score “cheap political points.”
“They claimed I threaten South-East Governors over Almajiri. This is false. They claim I threaten Yoruba people. This is not true. There is a calculated attempt to set the North against the South by some warmongers. I’m quite sure they will not succeed”.
He disclosed that he grew up in Lagos and Port Harcourt, and has been working with progressive groups in Nigeria “for a strong, united country where peace, liberty and justice reign supreme”.
He further described those fanning the embers of hatred and violence as “agents of darkness”.
Nwada Ugochinyere Onyechere reporting, Obinwannem News
