By Emmanuel Nzomiwu / Correspondent Awka
Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has stated that the call by Arewa Youth Development Foundation for dissolution of Nigeria was a joke taken too far, which is treasonable enough to warrant prosecution.
The youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo also described as “uncalled for and unconstitutional”, the call by the Arewa youths for Southerners in the North to leave within two weeks and for Northerners in the South to do the same.
In a statement by the National President, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, OYC said it was shocking that at this time Nigeria was passing through serious security breaches, some misguided youth under sponsorship by fifth columnists could be making divisive calls inimical to their fatherland.
Isiguzoro pointed out that Igbo youths were not under any illusion that the misguided Arewa youths were only smokescreen to the real architects of that treasonable call for secession, which the Nigerian state would resist with all its might.
“Our concern about the shameful outing in the palace of Emir of Kano is that the youths of the region who have been notoriously misruled for long by the same people that sent them on the dirty mission should have rather questioned their sponsors on their ignoble roles in bringing the region and Nigeria to its present situation.
“The same people that foisted penury, deprivation and frustration on the innocent talakwas (commoners) of the North are now sending them mischievously on an errand that threatens Nigeria’s unity. Our message to the contemporary youths of the North is to resist the attempt of the fifth columnist and merchants of topsy-turvy politics to herd them into an ill-fated mission,” he said.
He observed that when some people refer to the North, they try to pull wool over the eyes of some gullible people whereas the truth is that majority of Nigerians from the Middle Belt are strong architects of a united Nigeria and have demonstrated unequivocal support to the measures presently being taken to address the insecurity problems and other problems of the nation.
The OYC helmsman noted that it was only few elements with rabid inordinate ambition that are hiding under the cloak of the North to cause confusion and chaos in the country, saying, “we know these few elements that pretend to be the conscience of the North and we also know the true conscience of the North.”
In a separate statement, OYC said there was no threat to any Northerner in the South-East or Igboland.
“Our attention has been drawn to a provocative warning against Ndigbo by the Arewa Consultative Forum, threatening to interfere with Igbo businesses in the North. This is also on the heels of the call by the Arewa Youth Development Foundation for Southerners to quit the North within two weeks.
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