Biafra: Arewa group calls for the expulsion of Turkish businessman from Nigeria

- The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has asked the federal government to expel a 

Turkish businessman from Nigeria - The group said the Turkish businessman has meddled 

in the internal security of the Nigerian government - CNG also accused Abdulkadir 

Erkahraman of making some "undiplomatic suggestions" on the military invasion at the 

home of the leader of the IPOB Nnamdi Kanu The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has 

called on the Nigerian government to expel a Turkish businessman Abdulkadir Erkahraman 

from Nigeria for supporting the issues of Biafra. The group said Erkahraman has meddled 

into Nigeria's matters of internal security with regards of the alleged invasion of the Nigerian 

military on the residence of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi 

Kanu. In a statement signed by the spokesperson for the CNG Abdul-Azeez Suleima, the 

group said the expulsion of Erkahraman from Nigerian has become necessary after some 

"undiplomatic suggestions" made by him on the ongoing Biafra agitations.


Suleiman said: "We find it ridiculous that the diplomat, by extension speaking for the Turkish 

government, should throw all diplomatic ethics to the winds by tending to believe the 

fabricated invasion story even after the Nigerian authorities have denied it." He said 

Erkahraman and the Turkish government must accept that Nigeria is a sovereign state with 

the sole responsibility of handling its own internal security matters. Suleiman stated: "We 

call on the federal authorities to take urgent proactive measures to check the Turkish 

activities in Nigeria in the light of Erkahraman's veiled reference to the likelihood of arming 

the Biafrans against the state and the recent interception of arms being smuggled in through 

Biafra group orders army "We note with disgust that earlier, the same Turkish diplomat was 

said to have paid a personal solidarity to Nnamdi Kanu which suggests some form of 

conspiracy to aid the distabilization of Nigeria. "While we unequivocally restate that we are 

not waging war or calling anyone to violence, we also reaffirm our unwillingness to further 

tolerate the malicious campaign and threats of war waged by the Igbo led by Kanu against 

the North in particular and the Nigerian state in general. "Since all people have the right to 

agitate, to demonstrate and to criticize in a civilized manner, Biafra as an agitation, is not our 

problem. What we find unacceptably frightening is the open genocidal campaign by Kanu 

and his IPOB that incessantly and unapologetically refers to Nigeria as a ‘Zoo’ and calls for 

outright violence against its people, by the “kind of war that nobody has ever seen. "And 

now, a few days after a container of arms was intercepted by the authorities in Lagos, this 

Turkish diplomat came up with his suggestion of armed confrontation giving credence to 

suspicions of a much wider conspiracy against the Nigerian state. "To prevent the 

impending war and genociide being incited by Kanu's IPOB, we urge the Nigerian 

government to investigate the utterances of this Turk in relation to the intercepted arms and 

make a necessary decision in line with what International law and the international criminal 

court laid down as precedents in dealing with people and groups that openly call for war and 

genociide." The group further warned that the CNG would mobilize for a nationwide protests 

to push home its call for the immediate expulsion of the Turkish Ambassador before it 

becomes too late. NAIJ.com earlier reported that Erkahraman said the Nigerian government 

is crossing the red line on the ongoing Biafra agitation by members of the IPOB. 

Erkahraman said the federal government was inclining towards pushing the members of the 

IPOB to engage in armed struggle following military invasion of Kanu's residence