‘Biafra agitation is a dead, hopeless means of making money,’ Ex-president says

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has described the Biafra agitation as ‘dead’ and ‘hopeless.’

Obasanjo said further that the movement had been commercialized and had become a platform rather than a cause.

The former president made the comments on Friday, January 15, 2016, while delivering his keynote address at a public discussion on Biafra organised by Nextier Advisory in Abuja, The Cable reports.

“Biafra as a secession issue is dead, and nobody should follow that way. I see it as a platform rather than a cause,” Obasanjo said.

“The agitation was born in error and ignorance. There is the commercialisation of the Biafran agitation, which is criminal – for example, the issuance of sold-called Biafran passport which takes one nowhere.

“Biafra agitation is as an industry; a means of making money. Biafra agitation is a hopeless and futile exercise of which nobody should embark on,” he added.

The renewed Biafra protests are believed to have been caused by the arrest and detention of Radio Biafra boss, Nnamdi Kanu.

President Muhammadu Buhari has however said that Kanu will remain in detention because he travelled to Nigeria without a passport among other offences.