Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has called for dialogue with Biafran agitators.

Obasanjo speaking in Abuja on Thursday at “Biafra, 50 years After” Event forum at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre said We should beg those agitating for Biafra that there is enough cake to share and that Nigerians must treat the country with care.

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He said the country’s fundamental problem was that it had lacked a national leader.
“We never had a national leader. Our leaders at the beginning were mindful of their regions. That is our problem till today,” he said.
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”I have maintained that the young officers who struck in 1966 were naive but there were some element of nationalism in some of them. Be that as it may, it set us back.”

He said the war showed the bad side of the country.

“The language used in the war did not help matters, the people on the Biafra side called us vandals and we called them rebels,” he said.


“We thought we would end the war in three months, but it took us 30 months, and the federal side nearly lost it.
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”Civil war is more difficult than fighting in a foreign land because we are fighting to unite.
‎”‎Even a soldier of mine who tried to rape a woman… I had to chase him with a gun. He did not succeed in raping the woman, and I did not have to gun him down.”

Obasanjo said some of those agitating for Biafra today, lack an understanding of what it entails.
“Some of the people agitating for Biafra today were not even born then. They don’t know what it entails,” he said.
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”But I think, we should even appeal to those saying they want to go, we should not tell them to go, we should make them understand that there is enough cake to share. We should massage Nigeria just like in a love relationship.”

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Obasanjo made incomplete point. Dialogue to favour Biafra or dialogue to maintain the northern dictates? Nigeria leadership must cultivate the tradition of listening to one another in order to preserve. The era of intimidation, marginalization and arrogance have been overtaken by time and events.

The same Obasanjo who said that Biafra is dead and buried? You want to beg Biafrain Agitators? I guess you aren't referring to Biafrans, but if by any chance you are, to do what exactly? To sweep the millions of people massacred in cold blood from 1967 till date under the carpet? You obviously asked for the impossible. One thing you people have failed to understand is that even if Nnamdi Kanu wakes up tomorrow and says he's backing down from the struggle, we will take it up from there and he would have messed up himself forever, ofcause he knows that and will never dream of such. We have gone far and there's no going back. Obasanjo save your insincere and deceitful beg, we're going home.