The northern youths’ group called Arewa Youths, under the aegis of
the Northern Youth Coalition, has claimed that the leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, is trying to
destabilize President Muhammadu Buhari’s government before 2019.
The group also urged all Northerners living in any part of Nigeria,
to ignore any agitation, as IPOB’s aim is to provoke reactions or
reprisal attacks.
Spokesman of the group, AbdulAziz Suleiman, alongside other leaders
such as Yarima Shatima and Mastura Sharif gave the statement in Kano on
Wednesday, during a press conference at the Nigerian Union of
Journalists’ Press Centre.
According to the group, “all the violent activities playing out are
well planned to escalate by 2019, and starting from 2018 to prevent a
successful conduct of elections and eventually the collapse of this
Buhari government and democracy in Nigeria.
“In this situation, it is essential that the north and northerners
remain restrained and refuse to be provoked into reprisals which is the
ultimate hope of the conflict instigators.
“The agitations and disturbances that have been ongoing ceaselessly
since the coming of Buhari/Osibanjo administration are aimed at
rendering the country practically ungovernable and ushering in of
anarchy and instability, thereby occasioning a change of government by
whatever means. “And the singling out of Buhari for attacks is a tactics
to cause inter-regional crisis possibly leading to general unrest.”
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