The former President said those involved in the current agitation for Biafra were embarking on hopeless and futile exercise, which no serious-minded Nigerian should engage in.
Obasanjo spoke 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”.
According to the ex-president, Biafra as a secession issue is dead and nobody should tread that path.
He, however, said he considers the current agitation as more of a cry for attention, amelioration and
improvement of socio-economic conditions and situations, especially of the youth in Nigeria in general, but in the South East in particular.
He asked leaders from the South-East geopolitical zone to call the protesters to order as
such action would not do them any good. He said only those who did not experience the Nigerian civil war would embark on such a malevolent exercise.
Vanguard reports he refused to blame the Igbo for not voting for President 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. Obasanjo said:
“No right-thinking person who has experienced the horror of war will ever agitate for more wars. Most wars stem from real and perceived injustices and dissatisfaction and invariably wars emanate from a desire to correct or redress such situations.
Our civil war wasn’t any different. But at the end, almost all wars, jaw-jaw takes over from boom and devastation of the gun. That is the path of wisdom, prudence and political sagacity. If the elders abdicate their responsibility to the immaturity, inadequate experience, unrealistic idealism and the frustration of the young, it will no doubt lead to disaster.
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