Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the ex-president of Nigeria, has urged Nigerians to give up the agitation for Biafran independence.
The former president was speaking during a public discussion on the Biafra issue in Abuja organized by Nextier Advisory on January 15, Friday.
Obasanjo said: “Biafra as a secession issue is dead, and nobody should follow that way. I see it as a platform rather than a cause.”
The ex-president, who said that he was careful of getting into a debate on Biafra, added: “The agitation was born in error and ignorance.”
He further stated that the agitation had become profit-making, an industry through which some people made money from naive people.
Chief Obasanjo quoted the problem of the Biafran passport, “which takes one nowhere”, by a certain group as an example of some people making business out of the protests.
“There is the commercialisation of the Biafran agitation, which is criminal – for example, the issuance of so-called Biafran passport which takes one nowhere,” the former president noted.
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