Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
has said that President Muhammadu Buhari must meet with the leader of
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu before violence between the army
and separatists escalates into a full-blown conflict.
Obasanjo speaking
in London, with Newsweek said that “I don’t see anything wrong in that (Buhari
meeting with Kanu). I would not object to that; if anything, I would encourage
it,”
“I would want to
meet Kanu myself and talk to people like him, people of his age, and ask ‘What
are your worries?’ Not only from the southeast but from all parts of Nigeria.”
Obasanjo further
said that the Nigerian Army’s “heavy boot” response to pro-Biafra sentiment is
“not the solution,” but adds that the secession craved by IPOB is not the way
forward either.
“We need to
satisfy the youth in job creation, in wealth creation, in giving them a better,
fulfilled life, in giving them hope for the future,” says Obasanjo.
“There’s no easy way out.
“Those who fought in the war in Biafra will not
want to fight any other war.
“I have fought one war too many in Nigeria; I don’t
want to see another.”
News
Source: - Vanguard | September 16, 2017.
Photo Source: - Premium Times | August 12, 2017.
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