Atiku Abubakar
Ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar has weighed in on the ultimatum
given by some groups of northern extraction, asking Igbo to leave the
North on or before October 1, 2017.
The coalition of Northern groups, including the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, on Tuesday, had given all Igbo resident in the 19 states of the North a three-month ultimatum to quit or be forced out after the expiration of the October 1, 2017 deadline.
Atiku, in a series of tweets however condemned the entire issue, blaming both the youths who initiated the threat and the Igbo who responded with like threat.
He warned that Nigeria is too precious and that the national challenges are too overwhelming, such that Nigerians cannot afford to “pander to divisive rhetoric,”
The coalition of Northern groups, including the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, on Tuesday, had given all Igbo resident in the 19 states of the North a three-month ultimatum to quit or be forced out after the expiration of the October 1, 2017 deadline.
Atiku, in a series of tweets however condemned the entire issue, blaming both the youths who initiated the threat and the Igbo who responded with like threat.
He warned that Nigeria is too precious and that the national challenges are too overwhelming, such that Nigerians cannot afford to “pander to divisive rhetoric,”
See the tweets:Our country is too precious; our problems are too pressing to pander to divisive rhetoric.
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