Ijaw youths have threatened to attack
supporters of the presidential candidate for the All Progressives
Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in southern part of
Nigeria.
The youths said on Sunday that they would
visit Buhari’s supporters in the South with violence if the loyalists
of President Goodluck Jonathan should be attacked in the North.
The Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide said the
decision to attack Buhari’s supporters was informed by reports that
some persons in the North had resorted to sending open threat messages
to pro-Jonathan governors and other supporters.
In
a statement by the IYC spokesperson, Mr. Eric Omare, the youths said,
“All Nigerians irrespective of his or her place of origin has a right to
contest for the presidency of Nigeria and Nigerians have a right to
support any candidate of their choice without molestation.
“It would be recalled that hundreds of
Nigerians, especially NYSC members were killed and properties worth
millions of naira destroyed in the aftermath of the 2011 elections as a
result of similar undemocratic disposition of some elements in the
North.”
“We of southern Nigeria have not at any
time threatened or attacked supporters of General Buhari; hence any
threat or attack on supporters of President Jonathan in the north would
be visited with proportionate action from us in the south.
“Governors Amaechi, (Rochas) Okorocha and
(Adams) Oshiomole; Timipre Silva, John Oyegun, Bola Tinubu and other
supporters of General Buhari in southern Nigeria are going about their
campaigns without any molestation from southerners.
“Enough is enough for those who promised
and are making northern Nigeria ungovernable for President Jonathan. If
they want their own country, let them say so as we can no longer accept
the ‘Extreme North Must Rule’ mentality of some northerners.”
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