Since October last year, Biafran agitators have stepped up their campaign for a breakaway republic and the revival of the separatist state that existed briefly between July 1967 and January 1970. Following the arrest of Radio Biafra director Nnamdi Kanu by security agents upon arriving from the UK, his supporters have used the campaign for his release to claim that Igbos are marginalised within Nigeria.
However, at a recent speech in Awka during the grand reunion of the Osisiona Foundation founded by Dr Chike Obidigbo, a former All Progressive Grand Alliance (Apga), gubernatorial aspirant in Anambra State, Governor Obi said Ndigbo brought any problems upon themselves. He said that Igbos choose to be spectators rather than getting into the political mainstream where the national cake is being shared, declaring that if one was not where the cake is being shared nobody will remember you.
Governor Obi added that most governors in the southeast do not attend relevant meetings and when they attend they do not have patience to stay in such meetings. He added that as the Anambra State governor under Apga, there was no one who got more than him from the centre when he governed the state.
According to Governor Obi, when it came to the Millennium Development Goals, no state except Gombe State, apparently, where the woman in charge hails from, got more than Anambra State. Endorsing Dr Obidigbo for the 2017 Anambra State governorship race, the former governor who indicated his interest to run for the Anambra Central Senatorial Zone against the Apga candidate, Chief Victor Umeh, said it is people like Dr Obidigbo who are employers and wealth creators that should be given opportunity to rule Anambra State.
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