Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described pro-Biafra agitators as miscreants who should be ignored.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with our correspondents at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, on Wednesday, Obasanjo described the agitations by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra and other self-determination groups as misplaced.

According to Obasanjo, equating the agitations by pro-Biafra groups with the agitations that led to the Civil War amounted to making a mountain out of a molehill.

He said, “This is a fake agitation. You people make a mountain out of a molehill. These are boys who want to take people unaware and get money out of them in the name of Biafra. These are the people you should ignore, I don’t talk about Biafra. (Philip) Effiong came and said Biafra ceased to exist and since that day, Biafra has ceased to exist.”

It will be recalled that the Biafra leader as of the time the war ended, Philip Effiong, surrendered to Obasanjo by calling off the war.

Obasanjo said that in the spirit of “No victor, no vanquished,” the Nigerian nation absorbed Igbo people into the civil service and the military after the war, adding that there were no promises made to the then secessionists that the Nigerian state had not fulfilled.

He said, “We absorbed those we should absorb both into the civil service and into the military. Even those we didn’t absorb, who we initially regarded as being retired without benefits, later on we even gave them their benefits. Abandoned houses were returned. Within 10 years of the end of our Civil War, an Igbo man became the vice-president of our country.

“It took the Americans 100 years before they got to that point. So, what are you talking about? They have held all the ministerial positions existing in this country. We have Igbo as the Governor of Central Bank, Igbo has headed many parastatals in this country.

“That’s why these miscreants should be ignored. They want to get money and they go round and say, ‘We are still being victimised. We are still being treated badly in Nigeria,’ so that they can take money from people.”

Absolving Igbo leaders of complicity in the agitation, Obasanjo said they (Igbo leaders) were not in support of the agitation.

“I won’t blame the Igbo leaders. I will ignore them (the agitators). Igbo leaders that I’ve talked about, I mean the ones I’ve mentioned; Joe Irukwu won’t go out and do that type of thing, and many of them. The people who are doing this are the same people you will find in 419 business, they are the same people you will find in drugs all over the world. To them, this is another source of money for them as far as they are concerned,” Obasanjo said.

When asked his comment about a new book, InterInterventions, by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, in which the laureate called him a child of circumstance, Obasanjo said, “Did he? I’ve not heard anything like that,” with a wave of hand.

Although he said an end would not be put to Boko Haram by the military, Obasanjo said it was necessary that President Muhammadu Buhari gave the military a target.

He said, “You have to have an objective, otherwise, if you say go and don’t have an objective, that’s not good enough for a leader but an objective is not cast in concrete. Look, I want you to finish a job in two days, though you know it could take probably four or five days, but you must give an objective.

“I believe that what President Muhammadu Buhari will get, and which he knows he can get, is that he can get the upper hand; the military will get the upper hand over Boko Haram and of course, I think we are working towards that. But we will not get the end of Boko Haram in three months or in six months.

“And even when you get the upper hand militarily, you have to do what you have to do – the socio-economic aspect.”

Source: http://www.amebofamily.com/2015/10/olusegun-obasanjo-spits-fire-over-pro.html

shit

.. ... typical yollowba... ... ...

Imagine what a so called elder statesman is spewing

Atimes I wonder if there's any other country in this world that hates facing the truth like Nigeria

There was indeed a country

Obasanjo can not be celebrated because he is a thief...... Idris

Every one knows that Biafra is to defraud the gullible Igbo people.

To exist as one nation cannot be by force,if any region or group decides to be on their own, why are you crying? If the unity of Nigeria is working very well with glory, i hope nobody would be agitating for secession. But our unity has killed and are still killing thousands of souls yearly . Let every region go and sort themselves, if the North wants to be like Saudi Arabia or Somalia let them do it. Allow igbos to govern themselves and yorubas to do theirs.

He said, “This is a fake agitation. You people make a mountain out of a molehill. These are boys who want to take people unaware and get money out of them in the name of Biafra. These are the people you should ignore, I don’t talk about Biafra. (Philip) Effiong came and said Biafra ceased to exist and since that day, Biafra has ceased to exist.”

The people who are doing this are the same people you will find in 419 business, they are the same people you will find in drugs all over the world. To them, this is another source of money for them as far as they are concerned,” Obasanjo said.

freedom is the no 1 priority of a man in life, if someone is agitating for freedom in a peaceful way i think he/she should be considered irrespective of tribe or religion.

Oba - so- njo! Rijuo nsi afo ebe anwa. Otolo gbagbuo gi. kitikpa nyuo gi anya. ike ezi!

Voice of the Elders are Words of Wisdom.

Maybe we need a conference where both sides apologize for their roles in the war so we can move forward. It needs to be sincere too.

Meaning he will now go for third term.

Keep quiet, YORUBA CORRUPT LEADER.

Obasanjo should shut up for petes sake!

He talks of there being 'no victor and no vanquished' abi? So how comes there's been a systematic and sustained political and economic marginalization of Igbos and the South East since that empty statement was declared? Whenever it looked like a Igbo could be next in line to become president, somehow-somehow something managed to happen -like a coup or gang-up between those two groups that hate Igbos the most- to deny us the opportunity! Then the bastards will turn around and say Igbos are not united or Igbos don't have a presidential material!

He talks of Igbos being reabsorbed into the army abi? So how come it was only with the coming of Goodluck Jonathan that a Igbo was appointed Chief of Army Staff? How many Igbos have headed the NDA in Kaduna?

He talks of abandoned properties being handed back to Ndigbo abi? Hehehehehehehe

How many Igbo have been Chief Justice of the Federation; how many Igbo have been made Minister of FCT; how many Igbo have headed Customs, NPA and the Nigerian Police since that empty statement was made by Gowon?

Look at the unfair and unbalanced economy of the country whereby they took and concentrated everything in Lagos and Abuja (even oyel coys and NNPC for crying out loud) leaving Igbos and other unfortunate regions/zones having to go to where they're not wanted to transact business!

This country as presently constituted is a fraud, and is primarily favoring the Hausa/Fulani clerical/business/political elite! Others like Obasanjo may be ok with this scenario, but Ndigbo are not! It's either the polity is restructured or it curtains on this Lord Lugard experiment!

Shikena!

Conveniently when Dr Clueless was booted out that is when they now reach out for Biafra. Biafra Ko, Agafra ni.
Big time jokers.

Gbam

Obasanjo is right, afterwards he defeated Biafra along side other Nigerian military leaders like Adekunle, Gowon, etc and dragged Effiong and other biafran renegades to Dodan barracks to beg for amnesty. The video is on Youtube for the Ibobs without sense. Biafra is a dead country trying to claim the lands of the SS and Middle belt.

"Obasanjo is an economic illiterate, a liar" - Soyinka

may God help Nigeria. period.

[size=15pt]Which correspondent did obasanjo speak to ? Amebo gist?? See, that is why puny blogs like yours wont make it simply because you use lies to build temporary traffic.[/size]