El-Rufai’s belated push for our arrest proves he’s ‘enemy of the country’- Arewa youths

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has faulted the move by the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, to pursue their arrest following the recent announcement that a bench warrant for that purpose had been obtained, arguing that it was both belated and counter-productive.

The group wondered why the governor waited until the quit notice it issued Igbos resident in the North had been withdrawn, and only days to October 1 when effort had been successfully made to rebuild strained relations.

Leader of the group, Shettima Yerima said El-Rufai was only trying to distract the group by bringing up a matter that had not only been resolved, but since forgotten.

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Yerima stated in an interview with The SUN as follows, “Honestly, we really do not want to join issues with him, what is before us is how to rebuild the country, and so far, we have been doing that. Probably the governor is working to distract the government and we cannot be an agent to distracting the government.

“We will ensure we do everything within our limits to ensure that there is peace in the country, and we have been demonstrating this. We will not allow him to distract us.

“We are wondering because el-Rufai never thought of this until few days before October 1, when the issue has been put behind us, and we have done wonderfully to nip in the bud any crisis that would arise in the north because of killings in the southeast.

“We took it upon ourselves to go to Kano, a volatile area to address the northern youths, and warned that nobody should attack any Igbo in the region; more so, there shouldn’t be any reprisal attack. No one from southeast was harassed in the north. For him to come now is a clear indication for Nigerians to know the true enemy of the government, as well as, true enemy of the country.

“What he is doing it to incite people against the government and he is playing with fire. That is exactly what he is demonstrating because there is peace in the land, and we are working to ensure that there is unity.

“About two weeks ago, we have conference of all the ethnic nationalities, where we resolved to work together in order to build a stable country as a panacea to having peace and progress, and to support the good policies of the government, and suddenly, El-Rufai is coming up with this issue, after all the efforts we have been making to ensure peace”.

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