[b]Amid the ongoing protests by pro-Biafra
activities hoping to secure independence,
former President Olusegun Obasanjo
yesterday described the pro-Biafra
movement as dead agitation borne out of
sheer ignorance and error of judgment.
The former President said those involved in
the current agitation in support of Biafra were
embarking on a hopeless and futile exercise,
which no serious-minded Nigerian should
ever become a part of.
Obasanjo made the comments while speaking
in Abuja during a roundtable discussion
organized by Nextier Advisory, a public sector
advisory firm spearheaded by Patrick O.
Okigbo III, with the theme: “Nigeria and the
Biafra Agitation,” where he also made these
comments.
Obasanjo
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo
The former president asked leaders from the
South-East geopolitical zone to call on the
protesters to cease their dangerous
secessionist agitation before it gets out of
hand.
He said only those who did not experience
the Nigerian civil war could ever imagine that
good could come out of Biafrian secession.
Obasanjo also refused to blame the Igbo
community for not voting for President
Muhammadu Buhari in the last election but
urged him to prove that Nigeria was his
constituency by acting like God, who gives
rain to the good and the bad.
“No right-thinking person who has
experienced the horror of war will ever agitate
for more wars.[/b]
