Denying Igbo presidency for attempting to break out of Nigeria unfair – Obasanjo

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Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president, has stated that it is unfair to hold the Igbo exclusively responsible for their desire to break away from Nigeria.

According to the former Nigerian leader, the three main ethnic groups in the country have all tried to secede from one another at some point.

He claimed that because of the ethnic group’s role in the brutal January 15, 1966 coup that ended the First Republic, he typically felt uncomfortable when he heard someone assert that no Igbo guy would be elected president of Nigeria.

According to Obasanjo, Nigerians from other regions of the nation also made an effort to break away from Nigeria.

He said this while speaking to a 20-member League of Northern Democrats delegation at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in the capital of Ogun State, Abeokuta, which was led by former Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau.

According to the older statesman, the North made a determined attempt to leave Nigeria using what he referred to as the Araba vehicle.

“I think all of us in Nigeria have to rethink… It bleeds my heart when people say because the Igbo had carried out a secession, an Igbo man cannot be the president of Nigeria.

“I say what nonsense? There is no section of Nigeria that has not planned a secession. What is ‘Araba’ in the North? The North planned to break up Nigeria. Ahmed Jooda, a very good friend of mine, said that.

“What is treasonable felony? So, who among us can say I am better than the other? None! So, let us put our heads together and build a country together,” he said.

Obasanjo stated that the National League of Democrats’ concerns were shared by a large number of Nigerians. The former president stated that if the group had a national perspective rather than its current provincial or regional character, he would back it.

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