The co-founder of Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement Aisha Yesufu has slammed a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Joe Igbokwe for criticizing her over her refusal to stand and recite the new national anthem.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Yesufu had via the microblogging platform X, formerly Twitter publicly rejected the old national anthem.
The 50-year-old posted a video where she opted to sit while others stood to recite the national anthem.
She captioned the video; “#NotMyNationalAnthem” on her X account on Friday.
The activist’s resistence comes after President Bola Tinubu sign the National Anthem Bill 2024 into law, reinstating the anthem “Nigeria, We Hail Thee” composed just before independence in 1960 and used up until the 1970s.
Reacting on Facebook on Saturday, Igbokwe described Yesufu’s behaviour as “nonsensical”, adding that she was doing damage to herself and her family.
He wrote, “Aisha Yesufu cannot respect the National Anthem. Let us see where all the nonsensical behaviour will take her to. She may not understand the damage she is doing to herself and her family. Continue.”
Responding to the post, Aisha quoted Igbokwe saying, “Joe Igbokwe should please call a family meeting and ask them to speak freely and tell him if they are not ashamed of who he is.
“A desperado who goes about licking every behind no matter how smelly to be considered worthy of a morsel from the National cake.”