Thousands of protesters today stormed the Iranian embassy in Abuja, demanding that the Iranian ambassador to Nigeria immediately leave the country following the role the ambassador and his government played in the Army-Shi’ite sect clash last December.
The protesters which included clerics, human rights and civil society organizations expressed anger over what it described as Iran’s interference in the internal affairs of Nigeria.
The Protesters who carried several placards with several anti Iran inscriptions also urged the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to investigate Mrs Zeenat Ibrahim Yaqub El – Zakyzaky, wife of the leader of the Shiite sect in Nigeria for the video she appeared in calling for attacks on the Nigerian state
Speaking on behalf of the protesters, Comrade Ibrahim Abubakar and Bishop Musa Fomson urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately severe diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran for its meddlesomeness that threatens to open another front in the war on extremism in Nigeria, saying Nigeria cannot afford another band of extremists loose on the land in addition to the Islamic.
He said, “Comments from senior Iranian officials in the aftermath of the Zaria incidents were debasing to the extent that an uninformed person would be tempted to believe the whole of Nigeria was just another province of Iran. Many of the comments actively emboldened IMN members to rise against the Nigeria state while some went as far as hinting at physical invasion of our dear fatherland.
“The worsts of these inflammatory comments were from the Iranian Ambassador to Nigeria, Saeed Koozechi, who has new utterances for each new week aimed at stoking Shiite extremism. Koozechi’s affront was to the point where he suggested that Nigeria will burn for detaining IMN leader, Mr Ibrahim El-Zakyzaky, “Nigeria is pouring fuel on fire” was the comment credited to him in several publications. He had further gone ahead to suggest that we should accord Shiites status that is kind of above the law, where they can practice as they deemed fit – which in the past had entailed inflicting hardship on the rest of us when they hold their street orgies.
Koozechi’s tele-guiding of the IMN has bolstered the Shiite Sect to the point where they now issue videos to threaten the Nigerian state and public officials.
” Several of these videos are online and their authors and actors put them in the public space because they have confidence in getting Iranian backing for any atrocity they commit. No Nigerian, and not even the national of any other country will dare this, even as a diplomat, in Iran and not be dangling from the end of a noose within 48 hours.”
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