President Muhammadu Buhari
has put an end to the issue of Biafra, insisting that the country will not
break-up.
In a statement by Garba
Shehu who is the senior special assistant to the president on media and
publicity, Buhari was quoted as saying focus should be on development.
The president made this
comment on Thursday, December 1 while at a meeting with the Council of South-East
Traditional Rulers at the State House.
Moments after being denied
bail, three pro-Biafra agitators, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and
David Nwawuisi, who are standing trial alongside the Director of Radio Biafra
and Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Thursday,
December 1, showed their true Biafran spirit.
As they made their way out
of court, the three men fearlessly kept shouting “Biafra or Death, we are not
Nigerians don't call us Nigerians,” in front of DSS agents, prison officials
and their supporters.
This was after the Trial
Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, declined
to release the detained Nnamdi Kanu, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu
and David Nwawuisi on bail, citing the determination of an 11-count criminal
charge the federal government had preferred against them.
While being led out of the
court premises for Kuje prison, the trio of Onwudiwe, Madubugwu and Nwawuisi
strongly told the operatives to stop calling them Nigerians but to call them
Biafrans, adding that Nigeria is a fraud.
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