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- Afenifere chieftain, Femi Okurounmu urges Southerners in the North to return home
- Okurounmu said the 3 quit notice issued to the Igbo in the North by Arewa youth is not to be taking lightly and not meant for the Igbos alone
- He said he foresee trouble in the nearest future and the northern authority won't do much to curb the violence
Senator Femi Okurounmu, the leader of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere has urged all southerners living in northern Nigeria to return home before October 1.
It is gathered that Okurounmu made this statement while reacting to the 3 months eviction notice issued by Arewa Youth Council Forum to the Igbos living in the north.
The Sun reports that he said the quit notice is not directed at the Igbos alone and advised Yorubas in the north to move home too so as to avoid violence that might erupt after the 3 months given by northern youths.
He also said there is no need to keep Nigerians together if the people wants to go their separate ways.
He said:“This quit notice by the northern youths should not be seen by any wise Southerner as being meant for only people from the South-East, or that it is an empty threat.
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"These northern youths meant business, and not only that, they have the backing of the northern elders, who have not only expressed their support for the youths, but have also affirmed their backing for the quit notice given to the South-Easterners.
Okunrounmu alleged that the IG of police is biased.
"These Northerners should not be underrated, and one of the major reasons we are insisting that all Southerners should start coming back to the South now is that when these attacks on them begin, the Northerners will attack all Southerners.
"How are they going to be separate a Yoruba from Igbo? It is going to be difficult. Southerners shouldn’t be gullible. They should start coming home now.
"They should not wait until the end of the ultimatum. We don’t want a repeat of 1966-1967 pogrom, when hundreds of people of Southern origin, especially those from the South-East were massacred in the North.
Okurounmu advised Southerners not to be deceived by the arrest order on the Arewa youths by the Inspector-General of Police, Idris Ibrahim and Kaduna state governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, saying such order was only meant to give Nigerians the impression that action was being taken to rein in the youths.
He said: ‘‘Have these Arewa youths not been walking the streets free since the Inspector-General of Police and Governor el-Rufai ordered their arrest?
"The IG is a hypocrite. When crisis broke out in Osun state recently among some Hausa and Yoruba youths, is it not this same IG that immediately under 24 hours of the crisis sent mobile policemen to arrest Yoruba youths, while he left out his Hausa kinsmen?
"Why is the IG now unable to arrest these Hausa-Fulani youths who issued the quit notice? We are just deceiving ourselves, there is no justice in Nigeria.
"When an Hausa-Fulani man kills another Nigerian, he has not committed an offence, but when another Nigerian kills Hausa-Fulani man, he has committed an offence and must be punished. That is the Nigeria of today for you."
"However, if Nigeria wants to break up, so be it, let it break up, if it wants to break up. Nigeria will not be the first country to break up.
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"The defunct Soviet Union broke up, heavens did not fall, defunct Czechoslovakia broke up, heavens didn’t fall, and even in Africa, recently Southern Sudan broke away from Sudan and heavens didn’t fall. So, what’s the big deal if Nigeria breaks up? It is not compulsory that Nigerians should live together by force."
Meanwhile, Senator Okurounmu has dismissed suggestions of a military coup in Nigeria.
He said the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai,was just testing Nigerians reactions.
He also alleged that the plot rumour was floated by Hausa-Fulani group who feel threatened anytime one of them is not in power.
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