Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has described the agitation for Biafra as a scam, through which some cunning persons are making money from the gullible.
Obasanjo, made the comments during a roundtable discussion, organised by Nextier Advisory, a public sector advisory firm, with the theme “Nigeria and the Biafra Agitation.”
His words: “No right-thinking person who has experienced the horror of war will ever agitate for more war. 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 was not 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.
“The solution is first for elders in the South-east to caution realism and sanity among the youth and for the president to prove that Nigeria is his constituency, he should act like God who gives rain to the good and the bad, just and the unjust, in the world equally as the world belongs to God in totality,”
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