Arewa Youths threatens to sue IPOB over Falsehood

Arewa Youths President, Yerima Shettima 

The President of Arewa Youth Consultative Council (AYCF), Shettima Yerima, has threatened to drag the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) to court for attempting to set the Northern part of Nigeria against the South.

In a statement Yerima issued on Saturday, he accused IPOB of spreading lies that Northerners were planning to attack Igbos and Yorubas despite his rebuttal.


The youth leader said the “propaganda put together by illegal and secessionist groups” was a move to score “cheap political points.”

Yerima called IPOB “a racist and supremacist organisation that feeds on propaganda”.




“They claimed I threaten South-East Governors over Almajiri. This is false. They claim I threaten Yoruba people. This is not true. There is a calculated attempt to set the North against the South by some warmongers. I’m quite sure they will not succeed”.

He disclosed that he grew up in Lagos and Port Harcourt, and has been working with progressive groups in Nigeria “for a strong, united country where peace, liberty and justice reign supreme”.