Some northern elders have condemned the recent call for the sack of the service chiefs by the pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere describing it as unpatriotic, uncharitable mendacious and a misplaced effort.
The elders warned that there are some political enemies have infiltrated the midst of the pan Yoruba socio-cultural group.
According to the leadership of the Northern Elders, Professionals and Stakeholders’ Forum (NEPSF), there is no doubt that these soldiers died for citizens to live. The national president of the group elders’ forum, Simon Shango, said the forum and its members are optimistic of the supreme price paid for Nigerians by the soldiers.
Shango while urging the president to ignore the call by the Afenifere group said the call for the sack of the service chiefs is against the precepts of morality and spirit of fraternity or commiseration for families of the slain soldiers. He said the call is an agenda to lend supportive pillars to the atrocities of Boko Haram terrorists through media propaganda.
Shango said: “The pro-Boko Haram disposition of these tribal associations, manifested more glaringly in the communiqué issued by Afenifere after its monthly meeting, which took place in Akure, Ondo state at the house of its leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti.”
“To say, we were shocked that the Afenifere enlivened the campaign for the sack of the incumbent Service Chiefs is to put it politely,” Shango said.
“But the infusion of a political tone into an otherwise mournful comments by praying God to “…give us a leadership that is more than equal to the challenges we face,” grassed the partisanship of the group on the matter.
“And smarting from this mindset, Afenifere besmirched every effort made by your administration in the past three years, which has given respite to Nigerians, especially the communities in the Northeast, where the furnace of Boko Haram insurgency burned very hotly.
“This is not a platform for us to engage the elders of Afenifere on a battle of words; but suffice it to say, their remarks were uncharitable, unpatriotic, misplaced, mendacious and grossly leading. The comments are condemnable and a tacit bolstering of the terrorists triumph and burgeoning to rise against our nation in pseudo might.
“That’s why they freely quoted unofficial and inflated figures of casualties of soldiers in the Metele attacks,” he added.
