IPOB ‘Irresponsible, Ungrateful, Unappreciative’ Says Arewa Youths Leader, Yerima

Arewa Youths leader, Shettima Yerima, has described members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as being “irresponsible, ungrateful and unappreciative”.

Yerima was reacting to IPOB’s criticism of former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, who had in an earlier interview with PUNCH claimed that Nnamdi Kanu fled the country to the United Kingdom through Malaysia.

This had prompted IPOB to call Kalu a lair, saying the former governor’s false allegation was part of his plots “to escape his ongoing trial”.

The group also described Kalu as “a hapless victim of a well-orchestrated blackmail by his masters”.

But Yerima, reacting to IPOB’s censure of the former governor, expressed shock that the group could “extend their traditional ways of insults to even someone like Kalu.”

The Arewa Youths leader further said the group was not only unpatriotic and uncivilized, but also lacks the common sense to accept reality.

“A man who has frequently shuttled the North to discuss the safety of his people deserves accolades instead. If they couldn’t contain their pot of insults and decide to extensively extend it to even the ones sticking their neck out on their behalf, it simply shows how irresponsible, ungrateful and unappreciative they can be,” Yerima said in Kaduna.

On IPOB`s suit seeking an order of court to direct the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, to produce Kanu, Yerima said:

“I wonder the reason for such propaganda by IPOB. Even when they said Nnamdi Kanu’s father was missing, a doctor in the Federal Medical Centre confirmed he slumped and was brought for treatment. Meanwhile, IPOB claims they disappeared or the army has them.” he said.