Former Minister of Justice. Chief Richard Akinjide has stated that recent agitations for an independent Biafra is wrong and the country's unity should be priority.
Akinjide while speaking to Vanguard newspaper said Anybody supporting Biafra must be very, very wrong. I don’t know their reason but whatever
their reason, they are wrong. We fought a war for three years over Biafra and Biafra was defeated and the whole country united with the
belief that Nigeria should remain one country and the Igbo joined the country and since then they have been governors in the country, they
have been ministers both at the state and federal levels. They have been ambassadors abroad. I don’t see why anybody should now be asking for Biafra again, I think it should be rejected.
I think they should call them to a meeting and talk to them as father to son and ask them to stop because there is no reason for them to do what they are doing. In the last
government, we had an Igbo as Minister of Finance (Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala) and also, we had an Igbo as Secretary to the government, we also had Igbo as ambassadors in many parts of the world. So, there is no excuse for anybody to say he
wants to break up the country again after we fought a bloody war of about three years. We don’t want to go back to that. We want peace
everywhere and we want a fair share whether you are from the North, East, West, South, Middle-Belt everything should be evenly and fairly distributed.
Akinjide also criticised the selection of Bello Muhammed, a northerner as FCT minister,saying only northerners have been FCT ministers since the capital was moved to Abuja.
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