Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in an interview, described the call for a Biafra nation by some Igbos, as misplaced and fake.
He
said there was no basis for such agitations, since Nigeria absorbed all
Igbos into the civil service and army, after the war, adding that the
agitators are miscreants, and should be ignored.
Punch Newspapers reports that Obasanjo said “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.”
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