Ebonyi Gov Nwifuru faces backlash over ‘offensive’ language

Ebonyi State Governor Francis Nwifuru has come under severe criticism over what the Nigeria Youth Organisation (NYO) described as “offensive language” allegedly used by him.
Nwifuru, at the endorsement of President Bola Tinubu and himself through a motion moved by former Governor Martin Elechi and seconded by former Senate President Anyim Pius Anyim in Abakaliki, was quoted as saying, “Nobody should push us because we have all it takes to consume whoever is trying us, to destroy whoever is trying us.”
But the NYO Deputy National President, Nasir Doka, at a press briefing in Abuja yesterday, complained that the governor’s language was offensive, “particularly to young people, who view ...