Buhari’s ‘Go-and-Die’ Biafra Comments On Al Jazeera Calls For An Urgent Referendum

I have taken time to watch Buhari’s interview at Al Jazeera, especially where he was asked how he would deal with the Biafra question. First of all, I will say that from his response, and body language, it is obvious that he doesn’t care for the lives that have been lost, and may have been in support of the order to use deadly force on unarmed protesters. When your president, who took a solemn oath to protect and defend you, shows no interest in your life, and may indeed be colluding in killing his own citizens, then it may be a time to review your citizenship of that country.

I listened to Mr Buhari, and while I have previously never been a supporter of the agitation for Biafra; when I see a president who doesn’t care if his citizens live or die, where there are those who are happy to see their fellow citizens shot and killed for doing nothing more than protest, when I think back that in every part of the country that Igbos live, they are the scapegoat of any trigger point, being killed and their property destroyed for things they have little or nothing to do with them, when I think how they are told time and time again that they will never rise to hold the highest office in their own country and indeed have never held that office in many decades, then we indeed have to reflect on our membership of this nation.

It has always been clear that their are ethnic bigots who have issues with people of different tribes and

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