The group’s President, Goddy Uwazurike, in a chat with Daily Independent, said Nigeria belongs to all and no ethnic group has a greater claim to the country than others.
It will be recalled that the Arewa Youth Development Foundation, on Tuesday, called on southerners in the north to relocate to their respective states to make room for northerner who would be returning home.
This ultimatum was contained in a statement jointly signed by the group’s National President, Aliyu Usman, and secretary, Alfred Solomon, when the group visited the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sunusi II, in his palace.
But Uwazurike, who described the group as hardliners out to cause trouble and confusion in the country, saying the call is strange for a northern group to ask the southerners who are major owners of the nation’s wealth to leave.
He however noted that the AYDF “is a tiny neglectable, nonsense group bent on causing problem for everybody. They now hide their head when the problem erupts. They are people one can refer to as the hardliners whose sole aim is to make Nigeria look like Afghanistan or Iraq.
“Why should the Igbos leave? What right do they have to ask the southerners to leave? Do they have any greater claim to this country than any of us? All the major resources sustaining this country is coming from the South and you are asking the Southerners or Igbos to leave. It is a preposterous order” he said.
Source: Daily Independent