Biafra as a secession issue is dead - OBJ

The former president was speaking during the public discussionon Biafra issue in Abuja organized by Nextier Advisory on January 15, Friday.

Obasanjo said: “Biafra as a secession issue is dead, and nobody should follow that way. I see it as a platform rather than a cause.”

The ex-president, who said that he was careful of getting into a debate on Biafra, added: “The agitation was born in error and ignorance.”

He further stated that the agitation had become profit-making, an industry through which some people made money from naive people.

Chief Obasanjo quoted the problem of the Biafran passport, “which takes one nowhere”, by a certain group as an example of some people making business out of the protests.

“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.”