The Forum of National Youth Leaders of all Political Parties in Nigeria has urged South Africans living in Nigeria to leave before the end of July in their best interest.
At a press conference in Abuja, the National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Chairman of the Forum, Hon. Comrade Eze Onyebuchi Chukwu, said South Africa benefitted from Africa more than any other African country, especially Nigeria and doesn’t deserve the discrimination.
The Forum said: “We the members of the Forum of National Youth Leaders of all Political Parties in Nigeria have watched with utter disappointment how the Government of South Africa played down on this visible affront on African unity and solidarity.
“What is happening in South Africa today is not Xenophobia but Afrophobia. Africans attacking fellow Africans on African soil.
“South Africa is one country that has benefitted from Africa more than any other African country. In their dark days of apartheid, the whole Africa stood by them especially Nigeria.
“Immediately after independence on 1 October 1960, Nigeria joined the anti-apartheid movement and spent heavily sponsoring it. By October 1961, Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Jaja Ndubuisi Wachukwu, was already condemning apartheid at the floor of United Nations. We made South African problem the central part of our foreign policy.
“Nigeria Established Southern Africa Relief Fund, deducted from the salaries of Nigeria workers through what was called the Mandela Tax. This is the extent Nigeria sacrificed for South Africa, today, what we get is Go Beck home, leave our countiriii.
“Today South Africans are humiliating, harassing and embarrassing Nigerians with a short notice to leave their country so that they can kill them, claim their businesses and loot their hard earned goods and properties.
“Yes, we are peaceful and law abiding leaders of the Nigerian youths but we must let the South Africans know that nobody is a custodian of madness.
“We are therefore giving South Africans living in Nigeria from today to the end of July 2026 to leave Nigeria to their country, or else they will see in Nigeria what Nigerians saw in South Africa. Enough is enough.”