Biafra CANNOT be defeated - Wole Soyinka blasts Buhari for mishandling the Biafran protests

Biafra CANNOT be defeated - Wole Soyinka blasts Buhari for mishandling the Biafran protests

For the upteenth time, Wole Soyinka has declared that Biafra cannot be defeated. He stated this during the first Biafra-Nigeria War. He is stating again today as General Muhammadu Buhari continues to crack down on Biafrans.



In an interview with Channels TV, Soyinka lambasted Buhari and other who threaten hell and brimstone and asserting that "Nigeria cannot be divided". He rather advised them to look inwards into the cause of Biafra agitations in order to understand why Biafrans do not want to be part of Nigeria. Soyinka virtually urged the Nigerian government to beg Biafrans to remain. He condemned the heavy-handed way Buhari's government is handling the matter,

“I wrote an article during the war that Biafra cannot be defeated. People misunderstood what I was saying.

“Once an idea has taken hold, you cannot destroy that idea. You may destroy the people, the carriers of that idea on the battle field but ultimately it’s not the end of the story.

“Let’s not take this position of ‘don’t even talk about it’, ‘under my watch this will never happen’, don’t say things like that. Go into that environment and ask ‘what is it that we can do to make you happy and feel part of this entity?’

“Listen to some other Biafrans and ask them why they want to stay (and say) ‘this is what we are ready to push as the overall authority in this area’.

“Don’t go around saying ‘the sovereignty of the country is indivisible, it’s non-negotiable’ all that kind of language will only make matters worse,” he said.