Fiery human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari over his civil war analogy in his threat to deal with those he said are causing trouble for Nigeria.
Buhari said on Tuesday that he would treat young people misbehaving in the country in the language they understand, a threat that Aisha branded “insensitive”.
“Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.”
He made the comment on Tuesday during a meeting with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, who briefed him on attacks on the commission’s facilities in a certain part of the country.
While Buhari did not mention any particular tribe in his comment, Nigerians could infer that he was referring to the Igbo people, who led the agitation that led to the 196-1970 war.
“My name is Aisha Somtochukwu Yesufu. I am Igbo, a threat to the Igbo people is a threat to me. Any attack on the Igbo people is an attack on me. Any malignment (sic) of the Igbo people is a malignment (sic) to me. We are all Nigerians and no Nigerian is more Nigerian than the others,” she said in a video statement.
“The government must ensure that it deploys its resources and its apparatus equally to every section of this country.
“I totally condemn the tweet from the President where the President is threatening the Igbo people. He is threatening them with what happened in 1967. What happened in 1967 what a genocide, a crime against humanity and it must never ever be allowed to happen again.”
“For a President to come out today and use 1967 as a yardstick to threaten people with what happened then, with the 30 months of gruesomeness, with the 30 months of heinousness, with the 30 months of atrocities that were meted out on human beings, on fellow brothers and sisters, on children in this country, is inhumane, it is insensitive, it is callous, and it is unspeakable,” Aisha said.
