The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, AYCF, National
President, Yerima Shettima has refuted reports of threatening that the North
would go to war over End SARS protest.
The said report had claimed Shettima threatened that the
North would go to war if President Muhammadu Buhari is removed by Southerners.
Condemning the report, Shettima described such claims as
false and malicious, which should be disregarded.
He made the denial through a statement signed by the group’s
Legal Adviser, Barr Abubakar liman.
The statement described the group’s National President as a
democrat who is not against opposing views.
According to the statement: “The attention of the AYCF has
been drawn to a news by an online platform, in which our National President was
purportedly threatening war against the EndSARS protests.
“The online newspapers’ sensational and fictitious news
stories said our National President has declared that “North will go to war if
Southerners remove Buhari”. This is a concoction of the publishers’ riotous
imagination. We therefore state as follows:-
“Our National President – Alhaji Yerima Shettima has never
ever been associated with combative or violent protest to opposing views, for
whatever reason
“Our National
President has always been a Democrat, following legitimate constitutional
processes in his agitations and it is for this reason he has built a record of
fearless activism but free of violence.
“The AYFC is a platform of matured citizens who strongly
believe in deepening Nigeria’s democracy.
“The false claim of war being attributed to our National
President was indeed malicious and we will not take it lying low.
“Just like our National President, we are unapologetic in
the promotion of democracy through legal and legitimate means, in line with the
nation’s constitution, which supports presentation of grievances with respect
to the Rule of Law.”
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