have taken a step further to write a detailed letter to Osinbajo on why Ndigbo must be allowed to have their age-long desired country, Biafra.
The Arewa youths had told Osinbajo in their letter, “Though we do not doubt Your Excellency’s bona fide concerns for the peaceful resolution of the crises, we nevertheless have reservations as to the efficacy of this approach in ensuring lasting solutions.
“Our doubts are informed by the following historical antecedents that have characterized the behavior and conduct of the Igbo in Nigeria and previous efforts at containing them.
“And since evidently the Igbo have not been sufficiently humbled by their self-imposed bloody civil violence of 1966, we are strongly concerned that nothing short of granting their Biafran dream will suffice.”
On the other hand, the agitators for Biafra from South-East, who also have been accused of breaking the country’s law by their demands, have continued to urge their people in the North to obey the vacation order, insisting that it is either ‘Biafra or death’.
While it is possible that the Federal Government still has the chance of addressing the problems, some political analysts contend that with the level of love lost between the aggrieved youths who are tomorrow’s leaders, any achievable peace could only be temporal.
Rumours of coup, and will history repeat itself?
The alert of a possible coup raised by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai (COAS), and its consequent tension seems to have fizzled out but the fears that came with it remains.
There are Nigerians who have argued that there could be more to the coup alert than meets the eyes. They allege that the coup rumour could be a plot by those who are not happy with the present state of affairs of the leadership of the country, where history seems to be repeating itself.
According to these Nigerians, those who would not want a repeat of former presidents Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan’s saga, may not give a damn if a coup is what it takes to stop a southern takeover of power again in an event that ailing President Buhari could not continue as president.
Already, the position of the North on the issue seems to have been expressed by some of the leaders including Junaid Mohammed, a member of the House of Representatives during the
