Katsina State Governor Raise Emphasis On Biafras Comments

The governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari has in an interview recently said that the dream of Biafra can never become a reality. Masari, who described the agitations as an expression freedom, said it is just like the time when Boko Haram wanted to declare sovereignty, and Oodua People’s Congress were making different agitations. He said that just as those agitations did not see the light of day, the same will be for Biafra. He added that referendum cannot give them Biafra.

The governor of the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari said, “Agitations are bound to continue. Yesterday, it was Boko Haram trying to create an empire. Before then, we have the OPC (Oodua People’s Congress). The Biafran agitation is part of the freedom of expression, and we don’t know whose turn it will be tomorrow to agitate.  The average Igbo man, when you talk to him about Biafra, he will laugh, but Nigeria is bigger than Biafra, it is bigger than Igbo, it is bigger than Hausa, it is bigger than Yoruba.”

“A marriage of over 100 years is no joke.  We are human beings. Some people want to be heard either politically or in some other ways.  Those who are arguing, you have even among them some people who want to levy war on another platform.”

“If we are to have a referendum on Biafra, it will fail; even if it will win, it will only be in the South-East zone which has only five states against 31 other states. On conference, we have had so many conferences.  I was in a Constitutional Conference during Abacha era.  In that conference, some people were agitating for 8-state-structure, devolution of powers, this and that.

“There are certain aspects of devolution of powers and responsibilities that I support.  I support anything that will lead us to the correction of the mistakes of the past. Forget about these people, they are agitating from the outside; when they come into conference, they do something else. We were there. Obasanjo had his own conference. Where is the report? Obasanjo should have made the report of his conference public.”

“Jonathan should have made his report public. The Buhari government has not organized any Constitutional Conference, or have we done one?  So, why are you asking us to give you what we don’t have?  If we have done a conference, then it would be right for you to ask us to give a report. Why was it that Jonathan was not able to implement the report of his conference?  Why was it that Obasanjo was not able to implement the report of his own confer

One cannot but ask, is there more to the several conferences held by the past administrations? Were they held for political reasons towards the end of their various tenures in office? Has the report of the most recent national conference not been swept under the carpet?

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