L atest trending topic, that 2 of the 3 major tribes are actively clamouring for their own separate nations is in itself a failure for the Buhari administration. What makes it even more pathetic is how the government has made available an enabling environment for such agitations to fester and escalate to a point where we may just be fighting a civil war this October instead of celebrating our 57th independence.
Like i always say,President Buhari’s promise of placing those who voted en masse for him on a higher pedestal than those who didn’t breathed legitimacy into the Biafra and Ijaw nation struggles and as such,he is contributorily culpable of foisting this sad predicament upon us.The yorubas are the latest to join the train.
To take the loudest and perhaps more righteous of the struggles,after more than 31 non-ministerial appointments by this administration,the South-East was still waiting for its first.Add the lopsided appointments,Nnamdi Kanu’s incarceration contrary to court orders and the fact that the Minister of transport still hasn’t appeared before the Senate to defend the non-inclusion of a single South-Eastern state in the proposed rail projects and you have how Buhari justified the agitation for a Biafran state and won more converts for it.
I had planned to write on the need for nigerians to demand updates on the efforts being made by our law enforcement agencies to apprehend Yerima Shettima,the Arewa Youth Council Forum and his gang of hoodlums that issued the satanic ‘Kaduna declaration’ asking ibos resident in the northern states to vacate by October 1st but that was before the Presidency,with utter disregard for the possible consequences of doing such, released an Eid el Fitr audio message by President Buhari in hausa.The sheer insensitivity to the
The National Chairman, Board of Trustees , Peoples Democratic Party , Sen .Walid Jibrin , said on Wednesday that Biafra would be realised only by referendum and not quit notice . Jibrin stated this while speaking with newsmen in Nasarawa, Nasarawa State. He said that he would not support any group to bring division in the country , adding that peace and unity were the necessary requirements for the development of any nation. According to him , if truly the Igbos want their country , it is only referendum that will grant that independence. Jibrin said that everybody had his opinion as a Nigerian and that if public opinion said Igbos should have their country or the North should have theirs, “ so be it ” . He cited Britain which conducted a referendum on European Union membership , saying that due process must be followed before granting independence to any group . He cautioned that agitations should be devoid of crisis and called on Nigerians to see themselves as one. ...
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