Sit-at-home for 10 years, don’t bring it to North – Arewa youths warn IPOB

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has warned the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, over it’s sit at home order amidst calling the Middle Belt and Oduduwa agitators to join in shutting down Nigeria.

Yerima Shettima, National President of AYCF, said IPOB and the Southeast can sit-at-home for 10 years, but they should stay away from the North.

The pro-Biafra group vowed to shut down Nigeria for one month if its leader, Nnamdi Kanu is not produced in court on October 28.

Reacting, Shettima said IPOB’s action was a deliberate attempt to worsen Nigeria’s security challenges.

He said the North would not be a party to “a deliberate, politically-motivated plan to undermine or worsen the nation’s current security challenges.”

He stressed that IPOB’s move to “export” its activities to the North would be resisted.


He said since the governors of the Southeast seem to be satisfied with the activities of IPOB, “we hope they will continue with the sit-at-home for another ten years and we wish them the very best of luck.

“We know the southeast is IPOB’s home but exporting their activities to the North will be faced with massive resistance from all lovers of peace in the North.”

“We call on northern governors to step up action in order to ensure this outlawed terror gang called IPOB does not infiltrate the region. We also expect the governors to ensure that any northerner who shuts down his shop in solidarity with IPOB, that shop should be sealed forever.

“And for the avoidance of doubt, we will not fold our arms and watch the North get further destabilized by a violent strategy, whether in Kogi, Benue, Plateau, Niger or any state in Northern Nigeria because our hands are already full with challenges of insecurity and we are praying fervently day and night to find lasting peace”.