President Buhari yesterday lashed out at Biafra agitators
and other groups calling for the division of Nigeria.
According to Buhari, many people who fought during the
Nigerian civil war laid down their lives for the unity of this
country and it will be wicked to allow their sacrifice be in
vain. Buhari who said this while speaking at the Emir of
Katsina, Abdulmumini Kabiru Usman's palace, stated that it
will be better for all Nigerians to drown in a sea than for
Nigeria to ever break up.
"Recently, some people who were not even born
during the war are saying they want to divide
Nigeria. I always say the civil war was fought for
the unity of Nigeria because then we hadn’t even
discovered oil let alone enjoying it. But two million
people were killed. The way the Sahara is
advancing, with Boko Haram, growing number of
people and uncertainty over rainfall, in a land where
we fought civil war leading to the death of about two
million, for someone to just say he will chase us
out? So where do we go?For Nigeria to divide now,
it is better for all of us to jump into the sea and get
drowned”he said
Source: The Nation
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