ANTI-IGBO SONG: Ohanaeze frowns at northern leaders’ silence, says FG biased

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has expressed shock at the silence of some prominent northern leaders over the hate song against the people of South East currently circulating in the North region of Nigeria and on social media.

Ohanaeze also lambasted the Federal Government and said that its “toleration of their (Arewa youths) criminal conduct has portrayed the Federal Government as biased and unfair.”

The Igbo apex group was reacting officially to the derisive and inciting hate song calling for genocide against the Igbo people of South East Nigeria.

The reaction was contained in a statement by the president general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, on Thursday.

He said, “The current Hausa hate song trending in the social media is despicable, sad and disappointing. Ohanaeze is appalled that prominent leaders in the North (with the exception of a few), have allowed this development to flourish without reproach.

“The Arewa youths have stoked the embers of hatred to a discomforting temperature. The toleration of their criminal conduct has portrayed the Federal government as biased and unfair.

“Their quit notice to fellow Nigerians to leave any part of Nigeria strikes at the fundamental rights of citizenship. It is a call for the dissolution of the country. Their call for an inventory and seizure of assets of Nigerians living in the North is conversion. It amounts to a day light robbery of lawful property.

“The declaration of mop up action after October 1st, 2017 to deal with those who resist their quit notice order is a declaration of war. It is surprising that on top of all these a hate song calling for more hatred, despise and ‘abortion’ has been allowed to fester.

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“Yet no one is arrested. All the orders of arrest from Kaduna state and the IGP seem to be ambivalent and unreal. The youths meet freely with Governors of Northern Nigeria and Northern leaders showing that they enjoy their support.

“This development signals the beginning of a national catastrophe which if not nipped in the bud will snowball into incalculable damage to our continued existence as one country”.

Aside the quit notice ultimatum for Igbo to vacate the 19 states of the North on or before October 1 and the hate song currently in circulation, the Arewa youths are also demanding for the arrest of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, for demanding for Biafra independence from Nigeria.

 

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