Biafra agitation response to terrorists threatening to islamize Nigeria - Onyike blasts Obasanjo

Biafra agitation response to terrorists threatening to islamize Nigeria - Onyike blasts Obasanjo

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Ebonyi State, Mr. Abia Onyike, on Monday, faulted former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s description of Biafra as ‘dead,’ stating that the resurgence of the Biafran idea was a response to the politics of Islamic terrorists who are threatening to islamize the country.

File: IPOB potesters grounding Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State, South-east Nigeria, during the 1 Million March, to call for the immediate release of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu was arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS, on his way into Nigeria from UK

Briefing newsmen in Abakaliki on the state of nation, Onyike stated that “Though the former President was right in blaming the Biafran agitation on frustration and marginalisation, he got it wrong by claiming that the Biafran idea was dead.”

“Recall that 12 Northern states adopted sharia law in Obasanjo’s first tenure as President(1999-2003). Recall also that the first major event of the 21st century was the bombing of the twin towers in New York. Islamic terrorism has grown in the world. In Africa, the story is no different.

“In Nigeria, the local franchise of global islamization is the Boko Haram. Obasanjo should first of all fight to see that the Islamization policy is dead before wishing Biafra dead because the resurgence of Biafra may be the result of the fear of Islamization and political persecution since the Igbos are the largest Christian block in the Nigerian federation”.