The Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA) has given Sunday Igboho 72 hours to evacuate Yoruba people from the North or they will help him in doing so.
Igboho, the alleged mastermind of killings of Fulani herders in Alapara community in Oyo state, had on Wednesday declared a Yoruba nation, and threatened that the Yorubas would no longer accommodate and accept the presence of northerners in the Southwest.
The group, in a statement by its speaker, Mohammed Salihu Danlami, described Igboho’s threat as “unfortunate,” despite the constitutional provision of freedom of the citizenry to reside in any part of the country.
He said: “The Arewa youth Assembly still affirms its position as a law-abiding civil youth organization, we will not fold our arms and watch innocent Nigerians being threatened by individuals who clearly have no regard and respect for the law.
“As such we will like to bring to the notice ofIgboho that since it is he who wants his people out of the North to form a Yoruba nation, we will make it easy for him by asking him to provide a means of transportation to convey his people to the southwest.”
“We are hereby giving him the ultimatum of 72hrs to move his people out or we will be forced to take necessary actions by personally taking the responsibility of getting his people back home.”
“Igboho has continuously threatened the lives and properties of Northerners residing in the southwest for no reason. “We have kept quiet for the sake of peace and for the respect of the laws of our country. But as Igboho rightly said, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, he either calls himself and his accomplices to order or force us to retaliate the best way we know how.”
