The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council has
said those calling for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari for
attending a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Saudi
Arabia, are inviting anarchy into the country.
The group’s President-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abakaliki.
The group said no group had powers to attack Buhari for merely exercising his right to freedom of association.
It said the position of the Ohanaeze
Ndigbo and the Christian Association of Nigeria on the President’s trip
was capable of fueling religious war.
Recall that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and CAN
had on Saturday criticised Buhari for “disappearing” from the country,
24 hours after he was inaugurated for second term, to attend a meeting
of the OIC in Saudi Arabia.
But the Igbo youth body’s statement
read, “The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide is
amazed by the call for President Buhari’s resignation by an Igbo
platform and the CAN, for attending the OIC meeting in Saudi Arabia.
“It is barbaric for anyone to call for
President Buhari’s resignation using Igbo platform, as such rhetoric is
capable of plunging the nation into a religious war that will consume
the Igbos and other minority groups living in the North.
“We disassociate ourselves from any call
for the resignation of President Buhari few days after his swearing in,
and urge those behind the call to have a rethink.
“We should be forming alliances and
building bridges across Nigeria, instead of creating enemity with our
predominantly Northern Muslim brothers. That is what is being
unknowingly done and this is capable of igniting religious war and
making us and properties preys.”
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