Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso’s opposition to the call for the arrest of Northern youths that issued a three-month ultimatum to Ndigbo residing in the Northern states have been condemned by pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
Prominent Nigerians and groups including Afenifere, Ohanaeze and the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, have demanded the arrest of the youths by security agents.
But Kwankwaso was reported on Thursday, June 22, to have opposed the call for the arrest of the youths.
The former Kano State governor in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday said the youths should be engaged in dialogue.
However, Afenifere and Ohanaeze, in separate interviews described the former governor’s position as unfortunate.
The Deputy Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Mr. Chuks Ibegbu, who spoke with one of our correspondents in Enugu, said Kwankwaso’s position should be probed.
The Ohanaeze spokesman said, “Nobody is above the law so the security agencies should investigate him.
“We want to warn that those that are fanning the embers of disunity should desist from doing so, because, if at the end of the day, the country descends to anarchy, they will also lose out.”
Ibegbu added that Kwankwaso’s statement did not come as a surprise. “We have not forgotten that when he was governor, he stated that there was no need for more states to be created in the South-East. He said the land mass of the South-East would not support a new state, but he chose to forget the fact that state creation is not just about land mass but population.
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