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Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has said President Muhammadu Buhari must meet with the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, before the ongoing crisis gets out of hand.

Talking to Newsweek, Obasanjo, who as president met with Niger Delta militant leaders in 2006 to stop attacks on oil installations, said: “I don’t see anything wrong in that [Buhari meeting with Kanu]. I would not object to that; if anything, I would encourage it.

“I would want to meet Kanu myself and talk to people like him, people of his age, [and ask:] ‘What are your worries?’ Not only from the southeast but from all parts of Nigeria.”

He said the Army’s “heavy boot” response to pro-Biafra sentiment is “not the solution” and added that the secession craved by IPOB, is not the way forward either.

“We need to satisfy the youth in job creation, in wealth creation, in giving them a better, fulfilled life, in giving them hope for the future. There’s no easy way out,” Obasanjo added.

adenigga:
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has said President Muhammadu Buhari must meet with the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, before the ongoing crisis gets out of hand.

Talking to Newsweek, Obasanjo, who as president met with Niger Delta militant leaders in 2006 to stop attacks on oil installations, said: “I don’t see anything wrong in that [Buhari meeting with Kanu]. I would not object to that; if anything, I would encourage it.

“I would want to meet Kanu myself and talk to people like him, people of his age, [and ask:] ‘What are your worries?’ Not only from the southeast but from all parts of Nigeria.”

He said the Army’s “heavy boot” response to pro-Biafra sentiment is “not the solution” and added that the secession craved by IPOB, is not the way forward either.

“We need to satisfy the youth in job creation, in wealth creation, in giving them a better, fulfilled life, in giving them hope for the future. There’s no easy way out,” Obasanjo added.
Source: https://dailypost.ng/Biafra-Obasanjo-tells-Buhari-what-to-do-with-Nnamdi-Kanu

Aufbauh:
[s]I knew that the desire of every average Easterners most especially the Ipob sympathizers is for Buhari to negotiate with kanu. [/s]
They see this move as way of according the job man some kind of recognition and inflates his unfounded bloated ego. I trust the Fulani man not to give a hoot.

Nnamdi kanu issue and the circumstances around it is different from the Niger delta militants. While the latter has what it brings to the table to negotiate, the former has nothing to negotiate with other killing his own people.

Ayomide811:
More watery beans to that fendi lover boy till after 2023. We will then negotiate with Jagaban to release him conditionally

Tissaia:
[s] Mumu old man... We don't negotiate with terrorists. Fck you and fck Lamidi cownu and Bleep all IPOB terrorists.... We don't want war. But if you want war with Nigeria (North), there's one thing I can promise you, so help me God: someone else will raise your sons and daughters. We fight so our children never have to. Lowlife terrorists if not because of the UN nation begging us to do it under the radar we would have gone full pogrom 1967[/s]

Tissaia:
Mumu old man... We don't negotiate with terrorists. Fck you and fck Lamidi cownu and Bleep all IPOB terrorists.... We don't want war. But if you want war with Nigeria (North), there's one thing I can promise you, so help me God: someone else will raise your sons and daughters. We fight so our children never have to. Lowlife terrorists if not because of the UN nation begging us to do it under the radar we would have gone full pogrom 1967

kingsways:
Even a 5th term for Obasanjo would still have been better that this present rubbish

Tissaia:
Mumu old man... We don't negotiate with terrorists. Fck you and fck Lamidi cownu and Bleep all IPOB terrorists.... We don't want war. But if you want war with Nigeria (North), there's one thing I can promise you, so help me God: someone else will raise your sons and daughters. We fight so our children never have to. Lowlife terrorists if not because of the UN nation begging us to do it under the radar we would have gone full pogrom 1967

Tissaia:
Mumu old man... We don't negotiate with terrorists. Fck you and fck Lamidi cownu and Bleep all IPOB terrorists.... We don't want war. But if you want war with Nigeria (North), there's one thing I can promise you, so help me God: someone else will raise your sons and daughters. We fight so our children never have to. Lowlife terrorists if not because of the UN nation begging us to do it under the radar we would have gone full pogrom 1967

Ayomide811:
More watery beans to that fendi lover boy till after 2023. We will then negotiate with Jagaban to release him conditionally

SRAROFDAVID:
I weep for Yoruba people

SlyDev:
Obasanjo never fought for Yoruba once, always siding with his father people

Tissaia:
Mumu old man... We don't negotiate with terrorists. Fck you and fck Lamidi cownu and Bleep all IPOB terrorists.... We don't want war. But if you want war with Nigeria (North), there's one thing I can promise you, so help me God: someone else will raise your sons and daughters. We fight so our children never have to. Lowlife terrorists if not because of the UN nation begging us to do it under the radar we would have gone full pogrom 1967

Bendeco02:
Them too mumu... Yorubas are now the ones fighting for Buhari online.

The person they keep defending no even send them.