Biafra is dead and will remain dead

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo who spoke in Abuja recently during a round table discussion organized by Nextier Advisory, a public sector advisory firm stated that:

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo

 “only those who did not experience the Nigerian civil war would embark on such a malevolent exercise….. “No right-thinking person who has experienced the horror of war will ever agitate for more wars. Most wars stem from real and perceived injustices and dissatisfaction and invariably wars emanate from a desire to correct or redress such situations. Our civil war wasn’t any different.” ~ Former President Obasanjo 

Comments By Dr. Tom Okure:

I completely and totally agree with the remarks by former President Olusegun Obasanjo who recently directed his remarks to the protagonists of Biafra. Why? The youth that are agitating for the revival of Biafra lack a sence of thier history and the consequences of war. When it come to war, "any war" the best option is to avoid it.

Those who started the civil war that engulfed Eastern Nigeria did not pay the price for that war, it was the common people of Biafra, mostly children, the poor who suffered from starvation and homelessness. Most of the influential people responsible for perpetuating that conflict fled Biafra to greener pastures with their children when the tide turned against Biafra. My family (The Okure Family) among others and my beloved hometown Ikot Ekpene that paid a hefty price for that civil war and still bears the scars of that brutal civil war till today.

We all are stakeholders in Nigeria’s future and those who fail to learn from their past are condemned to repeat the mistakes of the past. We cannot let agitators and selfish and corrupt politicians drag Nigeria into the path of war again.

General Gowon

To keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done. General Yakubu Gowon was Nigeria's head of state at the time and prosecuted the Nigeria civil war with the slogan that bore his name and still holds true today….GOWON: meaning “Go On With One Nigeria.” Let’s keep Nigeria One. And that is my take on the issue. 

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