Obasanjo: We should beg those agitating for Biafra that there is enough cake to share



Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says engaging in dialogue with those agitating for an independent state of Biafra is a sure way to resolving the issue.

Speaking at the Biafra conference in Abuja on Thursday, the former president said Nigerians must treat the country with care.

‎He said the country’s fundamental problem was that it had lacked national leaders.

“We never had a national leader. Our leaders at the beginning were mindful of their regions. That is our problem till today,” he said.

‎”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.

‎”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 lacked 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.

‎”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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...Mr Obasanjo,it is too late..,Damned too late....By the way,you and your minions blackmail with war is also very lame and weak..period.

beg ke, if they want to leave, let them leave after all it's not by force

B

There is a reason OBJ is popular and endeared across all regions of Nigeria, he is always say things without caring whose ox is gored.

“We thought we would end the war in three months, but it took us 30 months, and the federal side nearly lost it''- Olusegun Obasanjo(May 2017).

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This is it..the truth is coming out gradually. Ikemba Nnewi- General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu shall continue to live in the mind of every Igbo man. If not for the combined fire-power of UK, Germany, France etc, Ojukwu would have won the war flat.

Dialogue not bullet.

I laughed when AbdullahI said only 10% of Igbos want to secede.

Biafra actualisation is seated deeply in over 98% Igbos. They are yet to just show it.

The idea cannot be defeated, one day the Egyptians (alimis and afonjas) would let us go...

We told them 1967 is not 2017, Those people have all the contacts, education, money and live all over the world.

mikeycharles:
beg ke, if they want to leave, let them leave after all it's not by force

chai since emeka bought your family single remaining land in iyana oba u haven't recovered from the shock..

leave them go to osun state and buy a plot of land for 50thousands maybe they wouldn't grab it also from u................OLODO

afonjas sure know how to totori flatiyeasterners.

uu

That's what Yorubas have been doing.
Unity beggars.....

YOUNGrapha:
chai since emeka bought your family single remaining land in iyana oba u haven't recovered from the shock..

leave them go to osun state and buy a plot of land for 50thousands maybe they wouldn't grab it also from u................OLODO

Emeka is actually the name of my neighbour and by the way I condemn tribalism.

Nigeria have never worked, is not working and would never work. it's Biafra or death.

Kkk

Whether he means it or not does not matter. What matters is that at the very least, that's how a statesman should talk as it is the right of the igbos to seek self determination.
But this kind of talk should have been the norm since. Not the constant threat and provocation. I just hope it's not too late.

mikeycharles:
Emeka is actually the name of my neighbour and by the way I condemn tribalism.

abi na tribalism don already condemn you
olodo common come and be going to meet ur english teacher

YOUNGrapha:
abi na tribalism don already condemn you
olodo common come and be going to meet ur english teacher

Are you mad at me or something

Ok..
hit like wen it gets to fp.

YOUNGrapha:
abi na tribalism don already condemn you
olodo common come and be going to meet ur english teacher

Are you mad at me or something

mikeycharles:
I you mad at me or something

I IS NOT MAD AT YOU.....LMAO I DON SEE SARRKI BROTHER OOH

YOUNGrapha:
I IS NOT MAD AT YOU.....LMAO I DON SEE SARRKI BROTHER OOH

I made a mistake, but sincerely I have nothing against the Igbos but the Biafra thing is becoming annoying, just leave if you wanna leave.

and osibanjo is already threatening us with war.at this rate, things would only be getting worse with Nigeria, why can't we go our separate ways and take control of our destinies? Nigeria is a mere geographical expression created by the British for their own evil intentions~awolowo.