Yoruba leading socio-cultural organization, Afenifere has carpeted President Muhammadu Buhari for describing the Igbo nation as a dot in a circle.
Afenifere said it was wrong for the president to have ridiculed the “Ndigbo which he used IPOB to represent.”
Buhari during an interview with Arise TV on Thursday has said ‘”IPOB is just like a dot in a circle. Even if they want to exit, they will have no access to anywhere.
“And the way they are spread all over the country, having businesses and property, I don’t think IPOB knows what they are talking about.
“In any case, we say we’ll talk to them in the language that they understand. We’ll organize the police and the military to pursue them.”
In its reaction to the president’s comment, Afenifere in a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Chief Sola Ebiseni in Akure, said Buhari was very unpresidential in his statement.
“The Igbo and their territory is just a dot in a circle of the map of Nigeria, which even if they secede could exit to nowhere since the elders and youths of the South-South had assured him of not being part of the secessionist agenda.
“He couldn’t have been reacting to the IPOB but the Igbos whom he said had businesses everywhere.
“His utterances were very unpresidential and in the mode of common expressions with some unidentifiable northern organisations”, part of the statement read.