Nigeria: Genocide Looms, Atiku Warns As Igbo Leaders, Northern Youths' Meeting Over Quit Notice Ends in Deadlock

8 August 2017

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has condemned peddlers of a trending hate song denigrating Igbos, warning that the country risks relapsing into genocidal war, akin to what occurred in Rwanda in 1994.

The former vice-president's warning coincided with the failure of a 10-man committee of a coalition of Northern youths and Igbo leaders, over the expulsion notice given by some Northern youths to Igbos to leave the North by October 1, 2017, to reach an agreement Monday.

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