Malam Shehu Sani, senator representing Kaduna Central in the National Assembly yesterday accused Jonathan of being behind new agitation for the creation of Biafra by Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.
Sani claimed that the new Biafra agitators were merely executing the ‘Plan B’ of pro-Jonathan forces. He said the plot was to destabilize the President Muhammad Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, administration. He appealed Nigerians to be patient with the president as he clears the 16 years rots of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Sani, who spoke to journalists in Kaduna, said the so-called Biafra agitators were aggrieved that the former president, who they considered theirs lost the 2015 presidential election and conceded defeat. He stressed that the new agitation was not only misguided, ill-conceive and ill-fated but an ill-wind that blow no one any good.
Sani maintained that the agitation was not the true reflection of the Igbo or the South-East people, pointing out that the future of the people of that zone is better guaranteed and sustained within a united Nigeria. “The Igbos have made tremendous progress since after the civil war. They have made successes as businessmen, as entrepreneurs, as academics and as politicians,” he added. According to Sani, the secessionist activity of the Biafran group is a hopeless course by people in search of attention and has nothing to do with the good people of the South- East. “As long as we realize the change agenda, entrench good governance and run an all-inclusive government, the Biafran agitation will naturally fizzle out. “Nigerians must be patient enough with President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
“The new agitation for Biafra is a misguided, illconceived and ill-fated course. It is an ill-wind that does no good to those people who are blowing it or to Nigeria as a whole. “The Biafra agitation is a new attempt to destroy President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration and to ignite a national conflict and cause chaos, pandemonium and confusion in the country.
“I see it as a plan ‘B’ action of pro-Jonathan forces that lost the 2015 election. I will also say that the agitation is not reflective of the interest and generality of the Igbo people or the South East. “The second category is desperate forces hiding behind the Biafran agitation to undermine our national unity and attempt to destroy the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. “So I will say this in clear terms: Nigeria is an indivisible entity under the green white green and we have since gone beyond the issue of the civil war,” Sani, who is also the President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria declared.
The pro-democracy activist maintained that the people of the area have the rights within the ambit of the nation’s constitution to demand to be recognized and respected as equal partners in the Nigerian project. “But the agitation must be within the ambit of respect for the indivisibility of Nigeria and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” he added.
