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Buhari commends El-Rufai for ordering arrest of northern youths over vacation order on Igbo

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June 7, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State for ordering the arrest of leaders of the Coalition of Northern Youths (CNY) who mandated Igbos to vacate the North in three months.

Buhari’s commendation was disclosed by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Wednesday.

The Minister, who took to his twitter handle, @MohammedLai wrote:

“The President Buhari commends the Kaduna State Government for arresting those miscreants. Jobless youths.

“The Buhari Administration vehemently condemns such a wicked plan by faceless Northern youths to evict Igbos from the North. This is their country.”

The spokesperson of a Northern Coalition group, Coalition of Northern Youths (CNY), Abdulaziz Suleiman, had on Tuesday ordered Igbos to vacate the North in three months.

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Speaking yesterday, Suleiman had said the entire Northern Nigeria was tired of coexisting with the Igbos and asked that “all Igbos currently residing in any part of Northern Nigeria are hereby served notice to relocate within three months and all northerners residing in the East are advised likewise.

“The persistence for the actualization of Biafra by the unruly Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria has lately assumed another alarming twist which involved the forceful lock down of activities and denial of other people’s right to free movement in the South-East by the rebel Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its overt and covert sponsors.”

Governor El-Rufai on Wednesday ordered the arrest of the group for making such inciting statement, assuring the Igbo and all residents of Kaduna State of their protection by the government.