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From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna
Secretary General, Arewa Consultative Forum, Mr. Anthony Sani has said that the bench warrant obtained by the Kaduna State government to arrest Arewa youths leader who gave the October 1 deadline to Igbo to leave Northern Nigeria was not necessary.
Sani told Saturday Sun that the warrant was capable of undermining efforts by Northern governors who made the Arewa youths rescind the threat long before the October deadline.
According to him, “I agree with those who are saying that the warrant of arrest is no more necessary, since the Coalition of Arewa Youths had withdrawn the quit notice. Morever, the warrant at this time is capable of undermining the efforts by the Northern states Governors Forum led by Governor Shettima and the Peace Committee led by former Head of state General Abubakar Abdulsalami who persuaded the Coalition of Arewa Youths to withdraw the quit notice”
Meanwhile, the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-rufai has kept mum over comments on him by former Lagos State Police Commissioner, Abubakar Tsav.
From Thursday night through Friday morning, text messages and phone calls were made to El-rufai’s spokesman, Samuel Aruwan without any response, even at the time of filing this report on Friday night.
Faced with this dilemma amid efforts to beat deadline, our correspondent sought alternative reaction from the acting Secretary of the State All Progressives Congress (APC), Yahaya Baba Pate.
However, Pate declined comment, saying, “I don’t want to comment and take over somebody else’s job. My own is to talk about our political party in the state. You may wish to contact El-rufai’s media spokesman, Samuel Aruwan, I believe you have access to him”.
