Biafra is dead, Biafra agitation is hopeless n futile nobody should……” - Obasanjo

Former Nigeria president Obasanjo made a statement while delivering his keynote address at a public discussion on Biafra organised by Nextier Advisory in Abuja on Friday. “Biafra as a secession issue is dead, and nobody should follow that way.

I see it as a platform rather than a cause,” he said. The former president, who said that he was cautious of getting into a debate on Biafra, said: “The agitation was born in error and ignorance.” He said the agitation had become commercialised, an industry through which some people made money from gullible people. He cited the issuance of the Biafran passport, “which takes one nowhere”, by a certain group as an example of some people making industry out of the agitation.

“There is the commercialisation of the Biafran agitation, which is criminal – for example, the issuance of sold-called Biafran passport which takes on nowhere,” Obasanjo said. “Biafra agitation is as an industry; a means of making money. Biafra agitation is a hopeless and futile exercise of which nobody should embark on.”