BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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RICHARD Akinjide, SAN and former attorney general of the federation and minister of justice, has asked agitators for the state of Biafra to forget the idea. In an interview with a national newspaper, Akinjide said: “Anybody supporting Biafra must be very, very wrong. I don’t know their reason but whatever their reason, they are wrong. We fought a war for three years over Biafra and Biafra was defeated and the whole country united with the belief that Nigeria should remain one country and the Igbo joined the country and since then they have been governors in the country, they have been ministers both at the state and federal levels. They have been ambassadors abroad. I don’t see why anybody should now be asking for Biafra again, I think it should be rejected.”
The former minister asked the leaders of the South East to hold dialogue with the agitators to stop the unrest going on in the region. Besides, he said people from the region should stop accusation of marginalisation.
He said: “In the last government, we had an Igbo as Minister of Finance (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala) and also, we had an Igbo as secretary to the government, we also had Igbo as ambassadors in many parts of the world. So, there is no excuse for anybody to say he wants to break up the country again after we fought a bloody war of about three years. We don’t want to go back to that. We want peace everywhere and we want a fair share whether you are from the North, East, West, South, Middle-Belt everything should be evenly and fairly distributed.”
— Nov 30, 2015 @ 14:50 GMT
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