{"id":45096,"date":"2024-08-02T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afenifere-condemns-one-month-ultimatum-issued-to-igbos-to-vacate-yoruba-land\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:00:34","slug":"afenifere-condemns-one-month-ultimatum-issued-to-igbos-to-vacate-yoruba-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afenifere-condemns-one-month-ultimatum-issued-to-igbos-to-vacate-yoruba-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Afenifere condemns one-month ultimatum issued to Igbos to vacate Yoruba land"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political organization, Afenifere, has condemned calls by some Yoruba extremists demanding the exit of Nigerians of Igbo extraction from the South-West.<\/p>\n<p>The organization assured all Nigerians living legitimately in \u201cany part of Yoruba land to entertain no fear about their safety or be afraid of being forced out of the area\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The assurance was contained in a statement by the organization\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, while reacting to a post by a non-descript social media handle tagged \u2018LagosPedia\u2019 which warned Igbos living in Lagos and South-West Nigeria to leave the area within one month.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the post, which went viral on Thursday causing apprehension in Lagos and other parts of South-West, also gave the Igbos one-month ultimatum to vacate the region.<\/p>\n<p>The hashtag #Igbomustgo also called on all Yorubas living in the South-East to \u201creturn home\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The post reads: \u201cLagosians and every South-West stakeholders should prepare for the massive protest of #IgboMustGo on the 20th \u2013 30th of August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have 1 month from now to leave and relocate their business from all South-West states. We urge all Yorubas living in the South-East to return home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Afenifere not only dismissed the threat, it also declared that those behind the unwarranted, provocative and divisive campaign \u201care out to cause disaffection among Ndigbo and Yorubas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Afenifere went further to state that there is no plan anywhere to expel any group of people who are peacefully doing their businesses from any part of the South-West.<\/p>\n<p>The organization added, \u201cThose who are being called to be ousted from the South-West are the unscrupulous herders who are making life difficult for our farmers and rural women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this wise, our Igbo brothers and sisters living in Lagos and the South-West should not entertain any fear of expulsion. We are all Nigerians\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Afenifere condemns one-month ultimatum issued to Igbos to vacate Yoruba land<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political organization, Afenifere, has condemned calls by some Yoruba extremists demanding the exit of Nigerians of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4930,7015,15,11599],"tags":[2509,2364,7016,31,22824,1738,180,22825,2813,16234,7906],"class_list":["post-45096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afenifere","category-igbo","category-news","category-yoruba","tag-afenifere","tag-condemns","tag-igbo","tag-igbos","tag-issued","tag-land","tag-news","tag-one-month","tag-ultimatum","tag-vacate","tag-yoruba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}