The former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has warned that the country might be at risk of relapsing into genocidal war, similar to what had occurred in Rwanda in the year 1994. His warning came in after the 10-man committee of a coalition of Northern youths and Igbo leader met over the expulsion notice given by some Northern youths to Igbos to leave the North by October 1, 2017.
The committee was meant to find a common ground between the angry groups and make peace but then hate speeches persisted with a song in Hausa targeted at instigating resentment of Igbos circulating in the Northern part of the country. Atiku intervened against the development, instructing security agencies to take precautions and thoroughly investigate, apprehend and punish those behind the hate song.
Atiku further said that the effects of hate in any shape or form were made even more evident over the weekend in a shooting incident that left many Nigerians reeling with shock; and commiserated with the people of Ozubulu in Anambra State, who lost family members in the fatal shooting that also left scores dead and many others injured.
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