Over recent months, several Igbo groups have been campaigning to recreate Biafra, which existed between July 1967 and January 1970. Due to a combination of the perceived marginalisation of Ndigbo and the recent arrest of Radio Biafra director Nnamdi Kanu, several Igbo groups have organised demonstrations all over southeast Nigeria.
Several wise old heads, however, have cautioned against the venture, pointing out that secession will do Ndigbo no good and have advised campaigners not to seek a dissolution of Nigeria. Governors across the southeast have agreed to meet President Muhammadu Buhari on the matter and use the audience to raise some of the grievances in the region in the hope that addressing them will end the agitation.
Yesterday, while hosting a delegation from the Igbo Elders Forum at State House in Owerri, Governor Okorocha told them that Biafra has long been dead and not even Amadioha can resurrect it. He added that they should be grateful that President Buhari apprehended a criminal and terrorist like Nnamdi Kanu who deserves to be punished for his crimes.
Governor Okorocha said: "On behalf of all the state governors in the eastern region, we have unanimously agreed with President Buhari not to release that terrorist and troublesome boy who does not know his roots. Nigeria will remain as one and the Igbos will be part of it."
He warned that very soon many youths will lose their lives unnecessarily in the name of this struggle. Governor Okorocha reminded the elders that even the former leader of the Biafran republic Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu made it clear that another war of secession was not needed before he died in 2011.
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