Nigeria’s former Vice President and the People’s Democratic Party presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Monday appealed to all concerned stakeholders to ensure that the bloodletting in the Shasha area of Ibadan, Oyo State stops with immediate effect.
Africa Today News had earlier reported that several people lost their lives after a clash triggered by the fatal stabbing of a cobbler by a cart pusher in Shasha market, Ibadan, Oyo State, degenerated into an ethnic conflict.
Within hours, the conflict spread beyond the market, as the Hausa and Yoruba communities in Akinyele Local Government Area, where the market is located, went after each other killing tens of people in the process and destroying properties worth millions.
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Reacting to this, Atiku said the state of origin of every Nigerian is Nigeria and that every Nigerian had the right to live anywhere in the country.
‘The state of origin of every Nigerian is Nigeria. Nigeria gave birth to the states. The states did not give birth to Nigeria.
‘Every Nigerian state must be 100% for 100% of all Nigerians, 100% of the time. No exception. Therefore, the bloodletting must stop in Sasa, and stop in every other locality,‘ he stated.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK