Former President Olusegun
Obasanjo believes that the agitation and cause of the Pro-Biafra activists
is phony.
Obasanjo said on Wednesday, that Biafra
ceased to exist after the civil war, hence, the present day Biafra groups
should be ignored and not be taking seriously.
The former President stated this in an
interview with exclusive interview with Punch, at
his residence in Abeokuta.
“This is a fake agitation. You people make
a mountain out of a molehill. These are boys who want to take people unaware
and get money out of them in the name of Biafra. These are the people you
should ignore, I don’t talk about Biafra. (Philip) Effiong came and said Biafra
ceased to exist and since that day, Biafra has ceased to exist.”
“We absorbed those we should absorb both
into the civil service and into the military. Even those we didn’t absorb, who
we initially regarded as being retired without benefits, later on we even gave
them their benefits. Abandoned houses were returned. Within 10 years of the end
of our Civil War, an Igbo man became the vice-president of our country.
“It took the Americans 100 years before
they got to that point. So, what are you talking about? They have held all the
ministerial positions existing in this country. We have Igbo as the Governor of
Central Bank, Igbo has headed many parastatals in this country.
“That’s why these miscreants should be
ignored. They want to get money and they go round and say, ‘We are still being
victimised. We are still being treated badly in Nigeria,’ so that they can take
money from people.”
“I won’t blame the Igbo leaders. I will
ignore them (the agitators). Igbo leaders that I’ve talked about, I mean the
ones I’ve mentioned; Joe Irukwu won’t go out and do that type of thing, and
many of them.
The people who are doing this are the same
people you will find in 419 business, they are the same people you will find in
drugs all over the world. To them, this is another source of money for them as
far as they are concerned.”
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