#EndSARS: Ango Abdullahi Lied That Many Northerners Were Killed In the South East During #EndSARS Protest - Northern Elders

 

 

Northern elders have said it is untrue that many people from the Northern part of the country were killed in the South East during the #EndSARS protests.

 

This comes after Professor Ango Abdullahi made the controversial statement recently.

 

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 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.

 

 

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.”