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Ignore Unpopular IPOB, There’s No Need To Leave The North – Arewa Youth To Igbo

Yerima Shettima, Arewa Youths leader

The Igbo residing in the north have been asked to stay put in the region by the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum who had earlier issued an October 1 quit notice to them.

Although the controversial notice was withdrawn last week, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) described the withdrawal as inconsequential to Biafra agitation and urged the Igbo to pack their things and leave the north, saying the northerners cannot be trusted.

“We urge all southerners in the core north to return home before October 1 as history will most definitely repeat itself.

“Southerners were massacred in the pogroms of 1966 and 1967 after similar assurances were issued then that people should remain in the north,” IPOB had said.

But Yerima Shettima, Arewa youth leader, has urged the Igbo to “ignore IPOB”, assuring them of their safety.

Speaking with PUNCH, Shettima said “There is no need for them (Igbo) to go anywhere. They can ignore IPOB; they are not even popular.”

“We have a culture; we have a background and when we say something we stand by it. We are not like IPOB that talks from both sides of the mouth.”

“Before we arrived at our decision, we consulted widely. Our people are not violent. We have leaders and when they speak, we obey them. It is part of our culture.”

Shettima said the Arewa youth groups were still hell bent on pushing for a referendum for the Igbo, while he also called on south-east leaders to caution IPOB.

He said the purpose of the quit notice was to “unify” Nigeria.

“Our focus is to unify the country and for the nation to remain one. It is left for the political elite and the traditional rulers to get them to embrace peace. For us, we have demonstrated our patriotism to the country,” he said.

“But we still insist on the call for a referendum for the Igbo to leave the country; we are working on it. We want a referendum to be enshrined in the constitution.”

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141 Comments

141 Comments

  1. Jully

    August 28, 2017 at 11:42 am

    The Arewa Fools (youths) only said that they have suspended the threat and not withdrawn. I advise all southerns to come home because the Aboki cannot be trusted for anything good. These people are evil and blood suckers. When the time comes they will not differentiate between Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw, Ibibio or Kalabari. They will unleash their evil on any southerner they see. Be warned!

  2. Conquest Daniel

    August 28, 2017 at 8:33 am

    Bozo people

  3. Ikechukwu Nichodemus Ugwu

    August 28, 2017 at 8:22 am

    I repeat ,Arewa youths are saying bye! bye!! bye!!! to their good old friends who after fighting the war (1964-1970) was reunited by the forgiving nature of the Igbos ,and have now being separated by nature . It is out of this sorrowful filling that they gave the notice that is tormenting them now.For love after fighting is the real love .

  4. Izuchukwu Okoro

    August 28, 2017 at 7:50 am

    Akpamu

  5. Bishop Moses Sunny Chikwado

    August 28, 2017 at 6:56 am

    That is how There father Satan work give you with left hand then use right hand to collect it back

  6. Onyebuchi Franklin Okeke

    August 28, 2017 at 5:46 am

    The Arewa youth are the unpopular group

  7. Mbah Patrick

    August 28, 2017 at 5:05 am

    Arewa bastards, why should you guys rescind on the quit notice given to Ndi Igbo living in the north? It is proves that you guys are street urchins and parasites

  8. Chekwas S Kalu

    August 28, 2017 at 4:56 am

    You want innocent blood to waste….. No peace to they northerners wickedness.

  9. Mike Napo

    August 28, 2017 at 12:53 am

    Shame on you guys of the north, my brothers pls come back home OK don’t mind the devil northern

  10. Kingjude Raymonds

    August 28, 2017 at 12:14 am

    But rmember you are naturally volatile, ready tinder for the fire that consumes……

  11. Dan Miko Mills

    August 27, 2017 at 11:07 pm

    Coward

  12. Ani Aloysius Kenechukwu

    August 27, 2017 at 10:16 pm

    Gworo teeth go and sit down

  13. Auwalu Muhd

    August 27, 2017 at 10:11 pm

    those lazy parasites are very much aware if they leave arewa land, they will all be perish, poor, dirty, and pig brain, fools, idiots

  14. Uwadileke C Collins

    August 27, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    Arewa youth una pale left yansh for dia.

  15. Nzekwe Vincent Jideofor

    August 27, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    cow is talking

  16. Ebere Okolie

    August 27, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    Unity beggers… we are leaving ur deserted Arewa land for you..

  17. Emeka Okpokoro

    August 27, 2017 at 9:18 pm

    Can u survive if they leave? Moreover u can’t even quit them. They are more stronger than u people.

  18. Alex Saint Bartholomew

    August 27, 2017 at 9:05 pm

    You mean the most popular group of our time the Ipob?

  19. Jenny Ify

    August 27, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    I don’t no what Igbo’s t still doing over there

  20. Prince Dunga Victor

    August 27, 2017 at 8:10 pm

    Ha ha ha. Who is begging each other .

  21. Ihezuo Nwabugo

    August 27, 2017 at 7:54 pm

    I smell deceit

  22. Benson Chuka Ameke

    August 27, 2017 at 6:32 pm

    Referendum will determine the popularity of IPON or otherwise not the north this and that

  23. Godson Izuchukwu

    August 27, 2017 at 6:20 pm

    I pity alamajiris. Mortality rate will soon increase in d north

  24. Nwafada Jnr Henry

    August 27, 2017 at 6:17 pm

    hate speeches northern mugus

  25. Christopher Ochini

    August 27, 2017 at 6:14 pm

    Correct

  26. Victor Nwaeze Adefu Na'mba

    August 27, 2017 at 6:14 pm

    Ifeajuna was the only core Igbo man that played a major role in the 1966 coup, there was also Nzeogwu from Niger Delta, 4 Yorubas, two Northerners, one Tiv, one Esean and yet it was called an “Igbo coup” and the North has yet to “forgive” us for that. The Yorubas who had more representation amongst the coupist also joined to propagate that misleading information.

    Except Olisah Metuh , I am not aware of any Igbo man or woman who played a major role in the Dasuki $2billion bonanza and yet Igbos are the most corrupt people in Nigeria and we are the only ones that love money.

    Since the time of Isaac Adaka Boro , the Niger Delta has been the hotbed of restlessness and strife in Nigeria but we the Igbos are the trouble makers.

    Almost all the bloody riots in Nigeria occurred in Yoruba land and the North but we the Igbos are the trouble makers and killers.

    Kaduna is the Nigerian Kidnap headquarters but the arrest of Evans turned every Igbo man into a Kidnapper.

    Anini and Shiner Rambo who made armed robbery history in Nigeria are not Igbos but Igbos are accused of being armed robbers every where.

    8 out of 10 ritual killings take place in Yoruba land but Igbos are dubbed ritualists in Nigeria.

    Majority of the prostitutes in Italy and Dubai are from Lagos and Benin but Igbos are called prostitutes every day in Nigeria.

    From the NDLEA 2014 report, the record of arrests for drug trafficking was……katsina-609. Kano-503, Bauchi -471, Lagos-434, Akwa Ibom-401.
    Google it if you have any doubts and yet Igbos are tagged as drug pushers.

    Boko Haram has caused more havoc to Nigeria than any other group and yet Igbos are the destroyers of Nigeria !

    All the unprovoked attacks by Fulani herdsmen have gone unresolved , not a single arrest or prosecution but we kept quiet and prayed to God instead but still no one is happy.

    Arewa youths ordered Igbos to leave the North but we didn’t reciprocate with a similar order against Northerners, they still live among us in peace and continue to destroy our crops with their cattle and we suck it up and continue with our lives but they are still not happy.

    Buhari offered dialogue to Boko Haram inspite of all that they have done but all he has for IPOB has been bullets and needless bravado !

    What have we done to you to be hated and misrepresented in this way ?

    (copied )

  27. Raymond Igwe

    August 27, 2017 at 6:10 pm

    Burukutus has turn the idiot to mumu.

  28. Bethel Kings

    August 27, 2017 at 5:56 pm

    The so-called arewa youths are cowards. They can not stick to their words which means that they are afraid

  29. Ig Anaekwe

    August 27, 2017 at 5:49 pm

    We are going.

  30. Ezerioha Emmanuel

    August 27, 2017 at 5:48 pm

    May God punish u and ur entire generations. Moron

  31. Ukonu Kennedy

    August 27, 2017 at 5:44 pm

    You are on your own

  32. Reginald Ifeanyichukwu Biafra

    August 27, 2017 at 5:40 pm

    Just look at his rotten teeth ezegworo

  33. Praise Uchman

    August 27, 2017 at 5:39 pm

    My uncle and his families has since come back, it’s like chrismax here in the east

  34. Martins Chinonso

    August 27, 2017 at 5:37 pm

    Ewu housa

  35. Divine Ugochukwu

    August 27, 2017 at 5:30 pm

    Ok we had u

  36. Onyeka Madubogwu Madubogwu

    August 27, 2017 at 4:43 pm

    Shut up

  37. Chris Orogwu

    August 27, 2017 at 4:38 pm

    Arewa youth all of you need to go back to primary one

  38. Chidi Ebere

    August 27, 2017 at 4:32 pm

    Our people should ignore all the Muslim northerners and their buhari government lies and leave that death trap region.

  39. Dion Nick

    August 27, 2017 at 4:03 pm

    You really don’t want them to go because they’re the one’s developing the north. Now you know that without them, the north will not survive…

  40. Bukky Campo

    August 27, 2017 at 4:02 pm

    When we are leaving come and hold us

  41. Okokon Offuo

    August 27, 2017 at 3:41 pm

    Shit

  42. Malachi Ifebude

    August 27, 2017 at 3:22 pm

    see this animals u never see any thing hunger wey go finish u is on the way we are leaving that desert called north

  43. Jude Ike Godin Zoin

    August 27, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    Ur A morro

  44. Chinonso Basil

    August 27, 2017 at 3:20 pm

    At ur age ……mugu

  45. Gift Umunna

    August 27, 2017 at 3:15 pm

    Na today we dey hear ds??

  46. Augurwell Onyemachi

    August 27, 2017 at 3:11 pm

    If you are my brother, sister, uncle, mother, father, or by any means related to me and you are still there in Ugwu-awusa, Relax, don’t bother coming back home, we have given you a proper burial as tradition demands. We’ve mourned you as a departed one and we’ve come to forget about you. GOOD-BYE… Beloved!!!

  47. Onyedikachi Eno

    August 27, 2017 at 3:07 pm

    Ewu u are

  48. Oforbike Godwin Akweze

    August 27, 2017 at 3:07 pm

    bye bye Fulani Bye bye Hawussa Bye bye Nigeria bye bye zoo

  49. Joe Ebere

    August 27, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    If IPOB is unpopular as you said laughing ,why are you northerners sleeping all these while with your pillows and mantras soaked with tears from your eyes, full of sorrow and regrets, the future uncertain because your leaders all these years were so selfish ,misused a God given opportunities to be blessed by the gifted Biafrans. It is a piety that the Biafrans must surely go their way this time around, are you still blinded not to see the visible signs everywhere, bye bye. God bless and all hail Biafra.

  50. Ndubuisi Eze

    August 27, 2017 at 2:27 pm

    Haaaahaaa,just now u discover that IPOB is unpopular after ur unpopular quit notice. Action before thinking is a sign of mediocrity.

  51. Victor Emika Okechukwu

    August 27, 2017 at 1:42 pm

    Mumu almajiri

  52. Victor Ume

    August 27, 2017 at 1:34 pm

    Thank God some hv already started leaving north

  53. Augustine Chioma

    August 27, 2017 at 1:21 pm

    Arewa can’t deceive Igbo’s

  54. Chika Claude

    August 27, 2017 at 1:13 pm

    We must leave your curse region…stop begging us we must go …Biafra is our only hope…we are ready for your threats.

  55. Paul Majah

    August 27, 2017 at 1:09 pm

    Cowards

  56. Paul Majah

    August 27, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    God bless Biafra

  57. Benjamin Chynedu

    August 27, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    Look at this fool! He’s not popular but u know him and he’s giving u sleep less night!

  58. Gift Aaron

    August 27, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    Why did you make u-turn?

  59. Gaby Goziem

    August 27, 2017 at 12:51 pm

    Undiluted cowards

  60. Chibuzo Amadi

    August 27, 2017 at 12:45 pm

    Chai! Igbos don suffer. So we no get sense? All the same thanks for your unsolicited advice.

  61. Victor Chinedu

    August 27, 2017 at 12:40 pm

    u are mad man

  62. Charles Osuigwe

    August 27, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    Ok you buy them be that now

  63. Ezeigbo Lucky Onyeka

    August 27, 2017 at 12:20 pm

    Our pple should comeback so dat Ariwa pple will dat without us, they can’t live

  64. Nicodemus Dauebi

    August 27, 2017 at 12:15 pm

    Fools

  65. Uchenna Stanley Iheanacho

    August 27, 2017 at 12:12 pm

    Caword’s that can’t keep to their words

  66. Alukah Pedro Stanley

    August 27, 2017 at 12:10 pm

    Biafra loading …..

  67. Arinzechukwu Izuogu

    August 27, 2017 at 12:09 pm

    Ndi ara

  68. Prince Emmanuel

    August 27, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    so that Fulanis hersman can kill our people abi he can not work, to be one Nigeria is not by force OK

  69. Krissmickey Nwachukwu

    August 27, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    Asi!

  70. Okikemeka Ikebuchi

    August 27, 2017 at 12:05 pm

    Lunatics everywhere

  71. Christopher Nwaonu

    August 27, 2017 at 12:01 pm

    Why iur people should come

  72. Comrade Ebube Obi

    August 27, 2017 at 11:43 am

    We are leaving… Stay in your north.
    You idiots were bragging as if we don’t have place.
    We are leaving, no going back

  73. Michael

    August 27, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    This issue of arresting look letter will definitely take us to war, let this buhari know that if such attempt is made will come out in our millions to resist it and the whole world will see how we are been killed.

  74. Djey Funkki

    August 27, 2017 at 11:37 am

    Akuya

  75. Chinedu Ani

    August 27, 2017 at 11:36 am

    Mumu unity beggars almajiri group,let Nigeria government grant Biafra referendum to prove ur stupid,ignorant and senseless view

  76. Joseph Agu

    August 27, 2017 at 11:30 am

    Very stupid

  77. Eze Chinedu

    August 27, 2017 at 11:29 am

    Ipob is now ur problem and more famous than you, over 88 countries of the world knows they exist.

  78. Chinedum Anajemba

    August 27, 2017 at 11:22 am

    This man is a big fool as old as u are u ar still looking for cheap popurality

  79. John Nnaemeka

    August 27, 2017 at 11:20 am

    Ipob is more popular than Arewa

  80. Martinx Osilama

    August 27, 2017 at 11:18 am

    Use your brain

  81. Ebere Okeke

    August 27, 2017 at 11:13 am

    Story

  82. Ekete Nestor

    August 27, 2017 at 11:13 am

    Don’t you see your mumu brain telling somebody to leave his father & mother & follow you, & you think you are making senses.

  83. Gerald Obiorah Dav

    August 27, 2017 at 11:10 am

    Useless man with cow brain

  84. Christian Abor

    August 27, 2017 at 11:10 am

    What do you people think, is inthat cows place. Come back there’s no place like home

  85. Njoku Augustine Chii

    August 27, 2017 at 11:08 am

    Thunder that have no location will strike his mouth, compound idiot arewa.

  86. Biafra Uche

    August 27, 2017 at 11:06 am

    This is shows the level of stupidity all this parasites are. dumb ass pigs!

  87. Prince Offorbuike Okwudilichukwu Chibuoke

    August 27, 2017 at 11:05 am

    Useless zoo

  88. Obinna Obiakor

    August 27, 2017 at 11:04 am

    Hahahaha.
    See popular see arewa… Idiots

  89. Chinasa Philomena

    August 27, 2017 at 11:03 am

    The most stupid man ever.

  90. Prince Jasper Robert

    August 27, 2017 at 11:02 am

    Imagine this terrorist opening his gworo teeth to say that Ipob is unpopular.Ipob is already registered and known world wide.Who knows arewa youth forum worldwide? Only in Nigeria.U northerners thought that by giving the quit notice biafrans would panic and retrieve her quest for freedom,least u northerners knew that it was nothing but a catalyst to speed up actualization of biafra Finally,biafrans are going,no amount of begging will stop them.Soon the whole world will see and know how parasitic,wretched,and backward northern region is.Northerners will soon enter into triple recession,let’s keep watching and see those it would affect most.Parasitic,dubious and lazy region.

  91. Emmanuel C Okechukwu

    August 27, 2017 at 11:00 am

    That is to stay and die. Hatfu

  92. Ogbebe Michael Ogbebe

    August 27, 2017 at 10:59 am

    igbos in North should stay awake all time northerners are evils there are not created by God anything can still happen at anytime

  93. NwaBiafra Maduabuchi

    August 27, 2017 at 10:52 am

    Evil has no friend,,,, Igbo’s in the land of evil called north should be wise not to be deceive by stark illiterates called Hausa /Fulani nomadic mendicant,killers_the tribe that, reasoning through their smelling hole ass,,,

  94. Evaristus Ibedionu

    August 27, 2017 at 10:50 am

    Nonsense people

  95. Obiefuna Martino

    August 27, 2017 at 10:45 am

    Unu nwa kwa?, onwe be gi ife unu fulu.

  96. Vincent Kaonyeasuya Ambrose

    August 27, 2017 at 10:44 am

    U be idiot

  97. Bashy Chimezie

    August 27, 2017 at 10:43 am

    Youths are youths and understand each other much better, the main problem are the Northern elders who’s mindset are dependent upon powers and political rights of who’s who in Nigeria.. I’m not going to be apologetic about my opinion.. Igbo’s are better of leaving the North for good this time around no going back

  98. Ilo Obioma Passars

    August 27, 2017 at 10:43 am

    We are ready for north,our Biafran Satan 404 nuclear missile will wipe entire north, bring it on you cursed tribe

  99. Okey Mike C Chukwueme

    August 27, 2017 at 10:41 am

    How can I ignore my brothers (Ipob) and follow you, impossible.

  100. Sunday Frank Sunday Frank

    August 27, 2017 at 10:33 am

    Leave for ur life

  101. Okwuchi Austin Isaac

    August 27, 2017 at 10:32 am

    Who told you that IPOB is unpopular? Ewu

  102. Olikpe Tochukwu Joses

    August 27, 2017 at 10:30 am

    Ndi nzuzu

  103. Akachukwu Nwafor

    August 27, 2017 at 10:29 am

    you useless arewa so called youths are making mockery of ur self

  104. Akachukwu Nwafor

    August 27, 2017 at 10:29 am

    you useless arewa so called youths are making mockery of ur self

  105. Frank Emela Njoku

    August 27, 2017 at 10:27 am

    Hahahaha

  106. Chinedu Onwuka

    August 27, 2017 at 10:19 am

    Why withdrawing the quilt notice and why issuing it at the first place? They are cowards that y they are begging igbos not to go again, they could v being the highest loser, they forgot that Hausa people are in south south and south east holding big position in shell, shelvron, total, agip, nnpc, petrochemical and also doing big business in south south and south east with oil well every were in the region, what did igbo v in the north ?doing business in the desert and you ariwa are here making noise ,nonsense parasite.

  107. Mohammed Musa Vangawa

    August 27, 2017 at 10:18 am

    let them pak n go stupid pipul

  108. Idewater Uchenna Akachuckwu

    August 27, 2017 at 10:18 am

    You guys have lost all you have been stolen from us since all this year’s Haha cry cry baby I want to see your mum shame haha

  109. Idewater Uchenna Akachuckwu

    August 27, 2017 at 10:18 am

    Haha keep on crying mumu

  110. Chijioke Nwa Jioke

    August 27, 2017 at 10:17 am

    Hahahahaha this laugh wan throw me inside gutter

  111. Ijeoma Anaekwe

    August 27, 2017 at 10:12 am

    Na only you destroy na you dey repair. Two face

  112. Ik Brown Brown

    August 27, 2017 at 10:10 am

    zoo to zoo nigeria

  113. Precious Diala

    August 27, 2017 at 10:10 am

    Fool me twice then I’m a fool forever

  114. Obiumeh Ifeanyichukwu

    August 27, 2017 at 10:07 am

  115. Umunnakwe Okechukwu Godwins

    August 27, 2017 at 10:06 am

    Aturu

  116. De Tiger

    August 27, 2017 at 10:05 am

    WHEN THE DEVIL SUDDENLY BECAME YOUR FRIEND,
    I BELIEVE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS AT STAKE

  117. Nonye Cynthia

    August 27, 2017 at 10:03 am

    WHAT IS THIS ALMAJIRI TALKING?

  118. Ndidi Oruche

    August 27, 2017 at 10:00 am

    People who think through their anus. You think you can intimidate the Igbos with ur baseless threat

  119. Chukwuma Evergreen Judenty

    August 27, 2017 at 10:00 am

    Who is this one kwanu ?? If u stay there u are on ur own and at ur own risk

  120. D Turn Byturn

    August 27, 2017 at 9:59 am

    Murderes…talking, lgbos come back b/4 d due date they must kill us.

  121. Helsingborg Segelino

    August 27, 2017 at 9:58 am

    HOPELESS FOOL LIKE DERE FADA UTHMAN DAN FODIO….IGNORE D BASTARDS N CUM BK HOME IGBOS….DO NOT LISTEN TO DESE FORBIDDEN N CURSED SONS N DAUGHTERS OF ISHMAEL…..

  122. Chisom Uzoma

    August 27, 2017 at 9:58 am

  123. John Nwaeze

    August 27, 2017 at 9:57 am

    Na lie. you must be arrested and made to faced international crime commission for inciting of genocide agonists Biafrans.this is not Nigeria government of a thing, now Biafra iS becoming an a diplomatic issue, you are going to answer to the world .you educated illiterates!

  124. Dennis Raymond

    August 27, 2017 at 9:57 am

    So Arewa Is now Begging We IGBO to stay with them

  125. Timi Toms

    August 27, 2017 at 9:57 am

    Hopeless parasites that have no means of surviving without oil making noise as if they important

  126. Jude Onuora

    August 27, 2017 at 9:57 am

    The fools are now begging, but are u sure that these people are really human being or cow incarnate

  127. Michael Nworie

    August 27, 2017 at 9:56 am

    Unpopular u said? But it was the same Ipob that unsettled and gave u sleepless nights that made u issue quit notice against igbos. Illiterate cow rearer

  128. Mathias Abraham

    August 27, 2017 at 9:53 am

    To all igbos, please kindly ignore these unpopular parasites called Arewa youths, we’re tired of breastfeeding them and their useless blood thirsty elders, please come back home the north is totally unsafe for you.

  129. John Onyekachi

    August 27, 2017 at 9:53 am

    #Lol

  130. Suleiman Egielemai Abdullahi Ali

    August 27, 2017 at 9:52 am

    HMMM

  131. Daniel Nelson Dike

    August 27, 2017 at 9:51 am

    U must be an idiot like ur president of the Zoo country!

  132. Chibueze Tessie

    August 27, 2017 at 9:51 am

    HAHAHAHAHAHA , MY PEOPLE ukpana okpoko gburu , nti chiri ya

  133. Juliet Nnanna

    August 27, 2017 at 9:49 am

  134. Ndudim Augustine

    August 27, 2017 at 9:49 am

    CAPITAL NONSENSE AND FOOLS .

  135. Samson Kanayo

    August 27, 2017 at 9:47 am

    Cow’s

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