Protests have broken out in the commercial city of Aba, Abia State on the morning of Wednesday, May 11, 2016 in response to President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments over the weekend in which he said that Northerners have nowhere to go if Biafra is allowed to become independent.
Speaking at the palace of the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabiru Usman, as part of the activities of his official visit to his home state over the weekend, the president made reference to the 1967 – 1970 civil war of Nigeria.
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“But 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,” Buhari said.
“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?,” he concluded.
The president didn’t get his facts right. Crude oil was first discovered Oloibiri in President Goodluck Jonathan’s local government area of Ogbia in Bayelsa State in 1956. By the time the Nigerian civil war started in 1967, Nigeria was an oil economy.
The protestors, who wore black and waved Biafra flags, chanted songs of freedom in the streets of Aba to condemn Buhari’s insensitive comment and hardline approach to the matter of Biafra.
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