The former Chairman of Police Service Commission, Simon Okeke, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to apologize to Igbo for describing them as ‘a dot in a circle’.
The former police boss also asked the president to apologize for saying he is ready to teach them in a language they understand.
Recall that in a meeting with INEC officials, Buhari had threatened to deal with those bent on destroying Nigeria through insurrection.
The president said, “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.”
Also, in an interview with Arise TV, Buhari had threatened that his administration would mobilise the military and the police to go after the IPOB, accusing them of being responsible for insecurity in the South-East region.
He had said that IPOB is “just like a dot in a circle and they have nowhere to turn to. They are spread everywhere and they have investments and properties everywhere and in other areas.”
“They don’t know what they are doing. How we will handle them is to mobilise the police and the military to go after them.”
Reacting to the comments at his Amichi country home in Nnewi South LGA of Anambra State, Okeke said such comments were not expected to come from the number one citizen of Nigeria,
He said: ‘It is painful that what we thought would have died down, the war fought over fifty years ago is still being haboured by the nation’s number one citizen. We have had Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, Olusegun Obasanjo, Musa Yar’Dua and Goodluck Jonathan as Presidents and none of them had made such statements, as if people he was talking about were not part of the country.
‘If it is possible, he should have been persuaded to apologize. What he said is a serious warning to the people he is referring to especially the youths.
‘Those he was referring to when he said shoot on sight should be on their guard. The situation is capable of causing another civil war too. Another civil war shouldn’t be allowed. Our youths should b careful.”
This article was originally published on Nigeria News
