Chief Femi Fani-Kayode pictured in court | NAN Photo
Femi Fani-Kayode, a former aviation minister and leading opposition figure in Nigeria, has condemned the threat by prominent Northern groups to Igbos living in the region saying that violence against Igbos in the North will be met with violence in the South.
In a short statement issued on Thursday, June 8, 2017, an e-mailed to The Trent, the thought leader made further reactions to the pre-genocide threat issued by a coalition of Arewa Groups ordering that Igbos leave the North before October 1, 2017.
He said that the northern youth need to
be warned that “this is not 1966′ in which a pogrom was carried out in
the North against Igbos.
“The northern youths must be warned and
told in very clear terms. This is not 1966. Any pogrom or slaughter of
Igbos in the north will lead to a swift, immediate and devastating
retaliation throughout the south,” the People’s Democractic Party, PDP,
chieftain said.
“Those that gave the Igbo quit notice in
the north are playing with fire and that fire will consume them. They
are opening the gates of hell and they will enter that gate.
“They are plunging us into darkness and we shall enter that darkness together. Nigeria belongs to us all.
“I urge the core Muslim northern elders
and leaders to call their youths to order before they spark off a series
of events and a crisis that may not only lead to a second civil war but
will also lead to the end of Nigeria.
“This time around the Igbo are not
alone. An attack on them is an attack on every southerner and every
Middle Belter. And such an attack will have grave and unfathomable
consequences,” the statement ended.
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