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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