Arewa Youth Forum Debunked Claim Of Going To War Over #ENDSARS Protest

The Statement allegedly credited to the leader of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, has witness a setback following the recent statement released regarding it.

Recall that we recently published report where the leader of the forum says they are going to war, if Buhari is removed as Nigeria President, as a result of the ongoing protest nationwide to end police brutality.

The group has come out denied a statement credited to Shettima Yarima, the leader of the forum.

The statement first published on Saturday purportedly released by AYCF National President, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, had declared that “North will go to war if Southerners remove Buhari” through the ongoing #ENDSARS protest.

Denying the claim, the Legal Adviser of AYCF, Abubakar Liman, in a statement, described the media report as a concoction of the publishers’ riotous imagination, adding that the AYCF National President has never been associated with combative or violent protest to opposing views for whatever reason.

“Our National President has always been a democrat, following legitimate constitutional processes in his agitations and it is for this reason he has built a record of fearless activism but free of violence.

“Much as any other civil society group is free to choose the combative or violent mode of protest, we at the AYCF do not and will never resort to such abhorrent method. 

“The AYFC is a platform of matured citizens who strongly believe in deepening Nigeria’s democracy,” AYCF lawyer said.

The lawyer stressed that while the purported statement was malicious, the forum was “unapologetic in the promotion of democracy through legal and legitimate means, in line with the nation’s constitution, which supports presentation of grievances with respect to the rule of law.”

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