Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra,
has mocked former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, former President Olusegun
Obasanjo and a ex-military commander, General Theophilus Danjuma, over their
separate calls for restructuring of the country.
General Yakubu Gowon (retd), had at a public event organised
by Igbo Leadership Development Foundation on Thursday, admitted that the Igbo
nation had been marginalised in Nigeria’s polity.
He said, “I believe that a lot of injustice has been done to
the Igbos and a constitutional debate on restructuring must address all
imbalances and restore hope and confidence.
Also, Obasanjo had condemned the current state of affairs in
the country in his speech on Saturday at the Frederick Fasehun 1st Memorial
Lecture.
The ex-Military leader said, “We estimated that Federal
Government would suppress the Biafran rebellion within three months. To make
allowances for the unforeseen, we allowed six months. But it took us thirty
months, five times what we allowed for, and what is more, we nearly lost the
war. And as a Field Commander at the end of the war, I can attest that we
fought with all Nigerian tribes including Igbos against Biafra.
“And if after over ten years of fighting Boko Haram, the
terrorist group is still waxing strong, let nobody out of self-delusion think
that a war of self-determination by one or more geopolitical zones of Nigeria
with the present disenchantment would be easily suppressed by the rest of what
may remain of the country. Some will fight to the last drop of the blood of
their group rather than suffer the indignity of slavery, oppression, domination
and atrocious injustice in the land of their birth and the only one that they
can call their country.
“If Boko Haram can get an outside support, any geo-political
zone opting for self-determination may equally get an external support. War may
not necessarily go as planned, estimated and predicted. Everything must,
therefore, be put in place to avoid a war, the end of which no one can
precisely predict. There is no assurance that Nigeria can survive a second
civil war. But rather, we should seek political solution and avoid a
destructive civil war.”
Nnamdi Kanu, however, believes that these were men who
rather took up arms against the Igbo than restructure the country in 1967.
“In 1967, Gowon, North & South West rejected
restructuring (known then as ABURI) and banded together in a genocidal war
against Biafrans that stood for ‘restructuring’,” Kanu wrote on Twitter.
“Today, [South West] SW, [North Central] NC plus Gowon,
Danjuma, OBJ are BEGGING for restructuring. Isn’t Elohim wonderful! #Biafra is
the ONLY option.”
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