Arewa Youth came out last June with a quit notice to all
Igbos residing in the north to leave the zone within three months and all hell
was let loose on them. I am in support of the principles behind the quit notice
on Igbos in the north but differs on the timing. Probably if they had said
three years, I would have been more comfortable; to allow for a less
fractitious home coming.
Being an activist, clergy and member of influential Igbo
groups in Nigeria, both the mass movements, professional, intellectual. Including
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and a frontline defender of Igbo interests for over a decade
now, I have a good idea of what the Igbo want. Also as a gospel missionary who traverses
many parts of northern Nigeria in the past, made friends among both religions, interacted
with the locals, I have an advanced idea of the mindset of the elite
northerner, the common man in the north and the almajiris and I know that many
information being spewed to the public, from the days of Boko Haram till date about northerners are half truth and more
lies, and I blame the northern elites hawkish disposition for such festering
lies.
