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‘You’re A Security Threat’ – Ohanaeze Calls For Arrest Of NEF Spokesman, Baba-Ahmed

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The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called for the arrest of the spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, over his comment that Igbo should leave Nigeria if they so desire.

Naija News reports that Baba-Ahmed in a viral video asked the Igbos to leave the country if it is what they wish, asking the northerners residing in the South to consider returning to the North.

But in a statement issued on Wednesday by the spokesman for Ohanaeze, Alex Ogbonnia, said the comment by the NEF spokesman is a threat to the peace and unity of the country.

The Ohaneze spokesman added that Baba-Ahmed’s comment is provocative, uncouth and inflammatory, asking relevant security agencies to arrest the NEF spokesman.

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Ogbonnia also described the call for northerners living in the Southern part of the country to consider relocating back to the north as reckless and arrogant.

The statement read in part: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural body and indeed the mouthpiece of the entire Igbo both at home and in the Diaspora, has repeatedly made it clear that the Igbo want to coexist peacefully and in unity with our fellow Nigerians.

“The diverse Igbo contributions to the economic development of all parts of the country do not indicate otherwise but the unity we want is not the unity of Jonah in the belly of the whale, but unity in holy matrimony. While the former is characterised by defecation and suffocation, the latter is procreative and productive.

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“Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has a shady background. His Mauritanian root betrays an identity crisis and psychological torture in him and he thus believes that to ingratiate himself to the Hausa-Fulani establishment, he should invest in vicious invectives against the entire South and the Igbo in particular. This is against natural justice and all known principles of nation-building.

“We reiterate that the broadcast by Baba Ahmed is a threat to peace and unity of the country and the security agencies should act on time to serve as a deterrent to some others harbouring such mindsets against the unity and corporate existence of Nigeria.”