Following a 72-hour ultimatum issued by the Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA) for people of Yoruba ethnic group to leave the 19 northern states and the FCT, the northern leaders on Friday cautioned its youths against taking laws into their hands. Yoruba leaders had same Friday, called on the northern leaders to caution their youths, warning them of the grave consequences of such ultimatum. Meanwhile, the ultimatum by the AYA was in response to a declaration on Wednesday by Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, who advised Yoruba indigenes that were residing in the northern part of the country to return home. However, Igboho, during his declaration didn’t ask the northerners living in the South-West to leave the region but merely stated that the Yoruba no longer wished to be part of Nigeria given grave injustice done to the region by the Nigerian government. Responding to Igboho’s declaration, the Arewa Youth Assembly in a statement signed on Friday, by its spokesman, Mohammed Salihu Danlami, said Igboho should, in the next 72 hours, evacuate his people from the North or they would help him to do so.