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Northern elders have disowned Professor Ango Abdullahi, over his recent statement that many people from the Northern part of the country were killed in the South East during the #EndSARS protests.

The elders, who strongly condemned the statement, asked Nigerians to ignore it, stating that it was a personal opinion of Abdullahi and not the general position of Northern elders as he erroneously portrayed.

The Northern elders operating under the aegis of Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development, in a statement, described Prof. Abdullahi’s statement as “false, unfortunate, insensitive, callous and meant to instigate Nigerians against one other”.

It insisted that the statement is capable of igniting ethnic killings and asked Nigerians not to fall prey to his antics.

In the statement signed by the group’s National Coordinator, Engr. Zana Goni and National Women Leader, Hajia Mario Bichi, the northern elders said Abdullahi acted alone in his statement, insisting they were not part of it.

They said the elder statesman’s unfounded claim of killing, at a time Nigerians had put past the ugly civil war experiences and were building bridges and working on consolidating national reconciliation was the least unfortunate.

“We wish to condemn in the strongest possible terms the statement credited to a well-read and respected elder statesman from our region, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, to the effect that Igbo people killed many northerners in the South East during the #EndSARS protest which was hijacked by some sponsored criminal elements.

“This statement is false, unfortunate, insensitive, callous and meant to instigate Nigerians against one other. Making this unfounded claim, especially at a time Nigerians had worked past the ugly civil war experiences and are building bridges and consolidating on national reconciliation, is the least unfortunate.

“We wish to let Nigerians know that Prof. Ango Abdullahi’s statement was his personal opinion and did not represent the position of Northern Elders as he had portrayed, “the statement read.

It added that, “we expect that an elder statesman of his status with such level of education ought to have known the difference between criminality and ethnic agenda.

“What happened in some southeast states was a pure act of criminality and not an Igbo agenda and was not peculiar to the region.

“How can he say Igbo people killed Northerners? Nothing can be more misleading than this.”

According to the statement, “People were killed and properties destroyed in several parts of the country including some parts of the North. It is unfair to attribute this act of some misguided deviants as a collective Igbo agenda.”

“It is an established facts that during and after the uprising, so many Igbo group rose to condemn the attacks by these criminals and even shared intelligence with security agencies which led to the arrest of so many of these misguided youths.

“Prominent groups in Igbo land also condemned the activities of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in public. So we wonder where Prof. Ango got his fact from.

“It is our humble appeal that we guide our comments especially those capable of igniting hate across the country.”

“We must continue to preach national unity and work together to defeat criminality in our country instead of attributing such act to a particular region,” they tasked.

“We, therefore, call our Northern and Southern brother to ignore this statement in its entirety.”

https://thenationonlineng.net/endsars-northern-elders-disown-ango-abdullahi-over-statement-against-igbo/

I don't know who dash all these abokìs Prof

Which of the Northern elders?

Watch how those Northern elders will suddenly become the heroes of some beings while Ango Abdullahi assume the status of illiterate.

People like his are the reason Nigeria is more divided than ever before and he'd become a national concern by now if Nigeria was a unified family

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Confused set of Elders.

Dem don deceive the idiot put for armed robbers motor finish nai Dem drive leave am

Happy birthday to me!

Hmm
watch this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3l8Heb9Dqo

Am I the only one at work and still chasing FTC on nairaland?

Abi na all of us no well

Thank you northern elders

so e mean say he's no longer a northerner

Good one... Next time get your facts right!

sori o ewedu

THERE WAS A COUNTRY INDEED

Ango Abdullahi, the professor of doom

ITS GOOD THEY DID SO BEFORE THIER VOILENCE CITIZENS START A TRIBAL WAR.








Our Weekend preachers we are waiting for your good messeges As Usual.

I thank Jesus for life.

Which of the northern elders??

We are solidly behind Ango Abdullahi!!

We stormed Enugu to make our position clear right into their eyes!!

The killing of Northerners in the east must never happen again!!

If they want let them take the warning the granted!!

We have very few northerners in the east compare to millions of Igbos we have here.

We stormed the East to give them a very clear warning right into their eyes!!

If the media want... Let them go and be interviewing random old men in the street in the name of Northern elders.

Thugnificent:
Happy birthday to me!

Happy birthday man..

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an dash that baba prof for Christ sake

Nah eh! No qualms
This is so sophisticated
Nah the way forward

Ango talks anyhow and Wike talks anyhow so i wont be surprised if Wike found him a good instrument that he can use to attack the Igbos hence he invited him in the name of Northern Elders forum to come and talk.

If Wike thinks that the northerners will attack Igbos with five states because of his tiny Ikwerre that is not up to one state, he is really deceiving himself.


In politics , population matters a lot Let Wike be deceiving himself.

Ango is a known igbo hater and wike apologist but thank God
Northern elders disown him cos that will be the evidence we will tender for disintegration of this loophole

Qd

V

End sharia law and anything sharia law in Northern Nigeria and the northern chieftaincies should all join and build back all the catholic church that has being bomb by the political boko haram

MrBachelor:
And the old fool has not been arrested for a hate speech.

Fact

Who knows whether this statement is sincere

And the old fool has not been arrested for hate speech.