Following the October 1 ultimatum issued by Arewa Youths Forum to the people of South-East origin living in the northern parts of the country to leave the region, the apex Yoruba socio-cultural organisation , Afenifere, has called on all Southerners resident there to start returning home.

Rising from an emergency meeting held by the group to discuss the state of the nation in Lagos on Thursday, Afenifere said all Southerners should see the quit notice not as meant for Igbo people alone, but the rest of their counterparts from the region.

Afenifere chieftain, Senator Femi Okurounmu who was present at the meeting told Saturday Sun that the quit notice by the Arewa youths should be taken serious in view of historical experience.

“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. 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. 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 further said that Southerners should not 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.

‘‘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’’, he remarked.

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 . 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.

On its own part, Yoruba Unity Forum expressed concern over the development, describing the quit notice as not only provocative, but also a shameful act.

The forum, in a statement issued by its Secretary-General, Senator Anthony Adefuye, called for the immediate prosecution of the Arewa youths.

http://sunnewsonline.com/return-home-now-afenifere-tells-southerners/

I thought only the Ibos were asked to leave the North? Wetin concern SW for the matter? Abi friendship don end?

OK. Thought they have a machine that will detect igbos only.. Lol

Northerners are very peaceful I keep saying it. I served in the north. My students are also traders in the market and whenever they see me a southerner coming to the market, they'll surround me asking me to come and buy from them and I got the best deals ever. #500 cow meat will full my pot I'll even get tired of eating meat. I watch free matches at the viewing center. I walk freely with my phone in the night and no cultists or agbero harassed me. Why are my saying all these? It's only a few bad egg is making the north look bad, if you have never been to the north, you'll never know. Igbos have the biggest houses and pharmacies in the north and they're happy. Leave them alone.

It's time we have a United southern Nigeria. Tinubu and the entire south cannot be talking of restructuring, while we are told it's not buharis priority.

lofty900:
Northerners are very peaceful I keep saying it. I served in the north. My students are also traders in the market and whenever they see me a southerner coming to the market, they'll surround me asking me to come and buy from them and I got the best deals ever. #500 cow meat will full my pot I'll even get tired of eating meat. I watch free matches at the viewing center. I walk freely with my phone in the night and no cultists or agbero harassed me. Why are my saying all these? It's only a few bad egg is making the north look bad, if you have never been to the north, you'll never know. Igbos have the biggest houses and pharmacies in the north and they're happy. Leave them alone.

The same people you bought meat from could eat your meat when brainwashed.

lofty900:
[s]Northerners are very peaceful I keep saying it.[/s] I served in the north. My students are also traders in the market and whenever they see me a southerner coming to the market, they'll surround me asking me to come and buy from them and I got the best deals ever. #500 cow meat will full my pot I'll even get tired of eating meat. I watch free matches at the viewing center. I walk freely with my phone in the night and no cultists or agbero harassed me. Why are my saying all these? It's only a few bad egg is making the north look bad, if you have never been to the north, you'll never know. Igbos have the biggest houses and pharmacies in the north and they're happy. Leave them alone.

Bullshit. I was born and raised in the North. Kaduna to be precise. There is nothing peaceful about the north.

An average northerner is far from peaceful and will kill you without any sympathy. Remain in the north at your peril.

hahahahaha. .to ur tent oh! Isreal

doublewisdom:
I thought only the Ibos were asked to leave the North? Wetin concern SW for the matter? Abi friendship don end?

A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

But only Igbo's were ordered to go, why calling on all southerners?

I sense disintegration!

Everywhere in this country, hardly a day pass without Igbos been discussed, haba!

lofty900:
Northerners are very peaceful I keep saying it. I served in the north. My students are also traders in the market and whenever they see me a southerner coming to the market, they'll surround me asking me to come and buy from them and I got the best deals ever. #500 cow meat will full my pot I'll even get tired of eating meat. I watch free matches at the viewing center. I walk freely with my phone in the night and no cultists or agbero harassed me. Why are my saying all these? It's only a few bad egg is making the north look bad, if you have never been to the north, you'll never know. Igbos have the biggest houses and pharmacies in the north and they're happy. Leave them alone.

Wasa da kaza, ba eberi yanka


find someone to translate it

Yorubas should stop hiding under another ethnic group to achieve their aim. Be bold to push your agenda.

Don't be scared of Hausas. Look at them eyeball to eyeball. It makes you have respect

Ori yin wa nbe!


To other daft yorubas that think the threat is meant for Ibos alone. Won a be ori yin danu danu! Dem go commot una head take am do almajiri plate.

lofty900:
Northerners are very peaceful I keep saying it. I served in the north. My students are also traders in the market and whenever they see me a southerner coming to the market, they'll surround me asking me to come and buy from them and I got the best deals ever. #500 cow meat will full my pot I'll even get tired of eating meat. I watch free matches at the viewing center. I walk freely with my phone in the night and no cultists or agbero harassed me. Why are my saying all these? It's only a few bad egg is making the north look bad, if you have never been to the north, you'll never know. Igbos have the biggest houses and pharmacies in the north and they're happy. Leave them alone.

Lol, shege da inska.

Young03:




Wasa da kaza, ba eberi yanka


find someone to translate it

Hahah it means

Playing with chicken doesn't mean it will stop you from killing it

and that's exactly what would happen to the guy you quoted who thinks aboki giving him free meat means they will not use that same knife they used in killing the cow on him. Stay in the north at your own peril

ragiluhivo:


Hahah it means

Playing with chicken doesn't mean it will stop you from killing it

meaning that, no matter how close u r to an Hausa man, he can still kill u one day


use ur brains

I have lived in d north

'A pre-declared war dose not kill a cripple' A word is enough for the wise.

Where is Lalasticlala sef

The yoruba leaders value their lives and are ready to receive them unlike people who are waiting for northern leaders to approve the quit notice.

Ogonimilitant:
Yorubas should stop hiding under another ethnic group to achieve their aim. Be bold to push your agenda.

Don't be scared of Hausas. Look at them eyeball to eyeball. It makes you have respect

Exactly!

ragiluhivo:


Hahah it means

Playing with chicken doesn't mean it will stop you from killing it

and that's exactly what would happen to the guy you quoted who thinks aboki giving him free meat means they will not use that same knife they used in killing the cow on him. Stay in the north at your own peril

lolz. I just gave my opinion

Well, it is good as the Yoruba's are waking up...

GreatNegro:
'A pre-declared war dose not kill a cripple' A word is enough for the wise.

Say no more.

All abookiis have machine that detects Igbo's from Yoruba's. Ode

My own is that returning southerners should return to their respective regions:
Yorubas to the SW
flatiyeasterners to the yeast.
Chikena!

doublewisdom:
I thought only the Ibos were asked to leave the North? Wetin concern SW for the matter? Abi friendship don end?

Remember fela was the first smart guy to call Nigeria a zoo. So westerners deep down knows who they are dealing with, just that they feel ipob is going about it the wrong way.

I insist that El-Rufai has a hand in this call by Arewa youths. The midget can never be trusted!

All southerners should come back home o!

lofty900:
Northerners are very peaceful I keep saying it. I served in the north. My students are also traders in the market and whenever they see me a southerner coming to the market, they'll surround me asking me to come and buy from them and I got the best deals ever. #500 cow meat will full my pot I'll even get tired of eating meat. I watch free matches at the viewing center. I walk freely with my phone in the night and no cultists or agbero harassed me. Why are my saying all these? It's only a few bad egg is making the north look bad, if you have never been to the north, you'll never know. Igbos have the biggest houses and pharmacies in the north and they're happy. Leave them alone.

That is the Nigeria of our dream, unfortunately not everyone has the same experience as you.

I know someone who died in Zaria when the jihadists attacked him. I know another person who lived at tudun wada, Zaria. He escaped and had to move to sabon gari which isn't far from the Nigeria army depot. Another group of jihadists came for them, they fought them back very intensely.

Guess what, police and military conducted searches for arms in shops and homes of Igbos after that.

lofty900:
Northerners are very peaceful I keep saying it. I served in the north. My students are also traders in the market and whenever they see me a southerner coming to the market, they'll surround me asking me to come and buy from them and I got the best deals ever. #500 cow meat will full my pot I'll even get tired of eating meat. I watch free matches at the viewing center. I walk freely with my phone in the night and no cultists or agbero harassed me. Why are my saying all these? It's only a few bad egg is making the north look bad, if you have never been to the north, you'll never know. Igbos have the biggest houses and pharmacies in the north and they're happy. Leave them alone.

You don't know a thing..I spent many years in North and so I know better than this myopic nonsense you have written here just because you were given 500 naira cow meat

No no no no no. yorubas should remain there after all Igbos, not Yorubas were asked to leave. There is a detecting machine that separates Igbo from yoruba in almajiri(s head.