…Says ‘Enough is enough’
Former Governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has called on political leaders and other prominent persons in the South-East to speak up on the attacks on Northerners in that part of the country.
In a statement he personally signed and issued yesterday, titled: “A clarion call on Igbo leaders: Enough Is Enough“, Wamakko said, If leaders from the South-East feel they can allow their people to do what they wanted, we may have no choice than to stop dousing the increasing tension among our own followers.
According to him, “Through all these atrocities in the South-East region, as individual leaders and collectively, we have maintained a studied silence by avoiding anything that will further rock the boat. Rather, we have been restraining our own people who are victims of these atrocities by preaching patience and peace.
“Regrettably but curiously, our friends and compatriots, leaders of Igbo extraction, have remained dead silent in the face of increasing assault and effort by their people to stoke a nationwide mayhem.
“The silence by political leaders and other prominent persons from that part of the country tells us only one thing: Their tacit approval for the activities of the murderous IPOB gangs.
“For whatever reason it is, I want to loudly call them out to speak up. Silence is no longer acceptable in the face of this clear danger and threat against the country.
“We cannot bear it any longer. If leaders from the South-East feel they can allow their people to do what they wanted, we may have no choice than to stop dousing the increasing tension among our own followers”, he warned.
Wammako said there is no part of Nigeria without its own share of discomfort and even reservations about the state of our country, adding that addressing such challenges requires sincere political engagement, not threats and violence.
