What Obasanjo said about Nnamdi Kanu’s secret plot to distabilise Buhari’s government

…IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu’s agitation not in the interest of South-East people, Nigerians – Prof. Ujo

A respondent however added his voice to the discourse when he told The DEFENDER that “There will not have been the need for anybody to call for restructuring today if not that the same Igbo who are agitating damaged the structure with which the British handed an already well structured Nigeria back to the Nigerian people.  Recall how the Igbo presidency under General Aguiyi-Ironsi destroyed Nigerian true federalism with his introduction of unitary system in a federal community.  Recall how all the coups against the unity of Nigeria have been by Igbo.  That is what is happening truth be told.  But if they can turn a new leaf, Nigeria had reconsidered them before after the Civil War, we will continue to reconsider and reintegrated them into our midst,” he said.

Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Nigerians to stop Nnamdi Kanu’s secret plot to destabilise President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

Obasanjo, who disclosed this at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, during a Book Launch, revealed that the failure to stop Kanu, could lead to a repeat of the 1966 coup, and the events that led to unprecedented bloodshed in the country.

“What lesson can we learn? The lesson we can learn, is that we have had enough tragedies in this country.

“So far, since 1999, it seems that we have got it right. Let us hope that we continue to get it right, and learn that Nigeria has had enough of bloodshed; enough of sacrifices by those victims, that Nigeria deserves peace, unity and progress”, Obasanjo asserted.

The three-time Head of State, also gave reasons for some of the decisions taken by his government, in his second coming as civilian President, in 1999.

He said he decided to retire Maimalari’s son, who was the then Military Administrator of Jigawa State, for certain reasons.

Obasanjo said: “I have no apology, but I have an explanation. It is because it is necessary to stop this sort of things, that took the life of your father prematurely; that we had to take the decision that all those who have tasted power, that they should never have tasted of political office, that we should ease them out of the Army, so that we can have an Army that is free from political aberration.”

In the meantime, it has been gathered that Nnamdi Kanu is backed by Israel and some other anti-Nigeria forces to embark on causing confusion in order to break up the country.  This has been confirmed by the charges by the former President, Obasanjo, at the book launch in Abuja.

…IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu’s agitation not in the interest of South-East people, Nigerians – Don

Further proof to this include a statement by Prof. Abdulhameed Ujo of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Abuja, who warned some groups and individuals involved in agitations to dismember the country to weigh their actions.

Ujo sounded the note of warning in Abuja on Wednesday when he called on the agitators to have in mind that no sitting government would support the dismemberment of the country under its watch.

The university lecturer said the call for disintegration was an indirect call for another civil war, adding that no country in the world had succeeded two civil wars.

According to him, there are various peaceful approaches to getting what you want but not to mobilise and instigate the people to violence.

“I have a feeling that the idea of disintegration does not even arise, If they are thinking of disintegration, they should take some factors into considerations.

“If we are to go into disintegration, we are going to have another civil war and there is no country that has ever survived second civil war,” he said.

Ujo said the agitation by Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was not in the interest of the South-East people and Nigerians.

According to him, the South East people are highly integrated in the country; noting that Igbo are very industrious in business and are all over the country.

“They have business structure all over Nigeria and somebody wanted to cause problem without considerations to the value of their investments outside the region.

“Does he want all of them to go back to the South-East? The region has no enough land mass to accommodate them and their businesses.

“The differences we have are likely because the country is not well integrated and I have always said that there is a need to reinvent the process of reintegration in Nigeria.

“We can unite as a country and become a very powerful nation in the global system,” he said.

The don said some agitators’ grievances were correct but must be handled through constitutional means without causing violence or over heating the polity.

A respondent however added his voice to the discourse when he told The DEFENDER that “There will not have been the need for anybody to call for restructuring today if not that the same Igbo who are agitating damaged the structure with which the British handed an already well structured Nigeria back to the Nigerian people.  Recall how the Igbo presidency under General Aguiyi-Ironsi destroyed Nigerian true federalism with his introduction of unitary system in a federal community.  Recall how all the coups against the unity of Nigeria have been by Igbo.  That is what is happening truth be told.  But if they can turn a new leaf, Nigeria had reconsidered them before after the Civil War, we will continue to reconsider and reintegrated them into our midst,” he said.