Buhari vs Biafra: President Buhari addresses Biafra issue in a recent interview

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During his last visit to Qatar, the president gave an interview on Al Jazeera news network. he spoke on current challenges that Nigeria is bothered with, which include: Naira Devaluation, Boko Haram, the Fight Against Corruption and the Biafra Agitation.

The President on the Biafra Agitation

The Nigerian President brought to mind that more than 2million lives were lost in the pursuit to recover and reunite the Eastern part of Nigeria, which resulted to a civil war that lasted from 1967 to 1970 in a secession attempt for a state of Biafra.

 “At least two million Nigerians were killed in the Biafran Civil War. For someone to wake up, agitating for the state of Biafra, maybe they weren’t born then. Looking for Biafra after two million people were lost, they are joking with the security and Nigeria won’t tolerate Biafra,” the president said.

The President Mohammadu Buhari administration has always reiterated that Nigeria’s unity is of paramount priority for the country and that while peaceful pro-Biafran protests are welcome, demanding the separation of the Biafran territories is against the constitution. 

In a reaction to the interview of President Buhari, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has this to say:
"We will also not tolerate Nigeria" says Emma Mmezu and Dr Clifford Iroanya, spokesmen of IPOB, on March 6, 2016 on Vanguard news.

“For record purposes, we wish to reiterate that our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu hasn’t mandated Ohanaeze or any group to negotiate for his release” the spokesmen said in a statement titled “Response to Ohanaeze and Buhari’s disparaging remarks about Biafra on Al Jazeera,”

“The agitation for Biafra is a long and difficult process and the entire IPOB family all over the world understands this approach as explained by our detained leader”.

“We are not here to merely agitate, we have come to restore or die in this process. Some people think we are joking or can be dissuaded easily from this divine path that God-Chukwu Okike Abiama has mandated us to follow.

“All negotiations on Biafra must be led by Nnamdi Kanu and he alone. If roads, bridges and a few junior staff at Aso Rock pose as our problems, then IPOB worldwide can fund such infrastructural development alone and very soon, we shall do it. Our quest is Biafra- nothing more, nothing less”.

“Regarding president Buhari’s Aljazeera interview on Biafra, we welcome his statements because Biafra will not also tolerate Nigeria. Nigeria was created by Lord Luggard and not Chukwu Okike Abiama, God Almighty. So, like USSR, it will collapse”.

“We, the IPOB Worldwide have decided not to go back on this quest for restoration of Biafra. Nigeria is not bigger than USSR just as Buhari is not stronger than Michael Gobachev. Buhari can kill Biafrans as he did during the 1967 to 1970 civil war, but this time, it will not be the same.”

Source: Naij.com