Boko Haram, not IPOB, is threat to Nigeria’s Security —Igbo Group

AN Igbo group known as Igbo Renaissance Agenda(IRA), has replied the Arewa Youth Assembly, who, on Friday called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, for what it termed “threat to national security”.

However, in a press statement signed by Jude Ndukwe and Amaka Ekwo,  protem coordinator and protem secretary of Igbo Renaissance Agenda and made available to the media on Monday, the group chided the Arewa youths for such a “hypocritical and callous” call.

The group went further to state that rather than be “obsessed” with Nnamdi Kanu, the Arewa group should “face the cankerworm and work assiduously to tackle the menace of terrorism, abject poverty, illiteracy, disease, laziness (a vice that makes them threaten to acquire properties of Igbo by seizure) etc that ravage their region”.

The IRA also claimed that the ultimate target of the Arewa youths is the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo: “They are looking for ways of pushing Osinbajo into making monumental errors that are capable of imploding the nation so that they would turn around to say he lacks the capacity to lead thereby using that alibi to create chaos that could see him ousted and have any of their kinsmen replace him, they stated.