Candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC) presidential candidate in the annulled June 12, 1993, Bashir Tofa, has said that small groups of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) exist across the country not just the Southeast.
According to him, while the federal government plans to deal with the larger Nnamdi Kanu-led IPOB, it should have a plan for the resolution of secessionist agitations wherever they occur.
Tofa said during an interview with Vanguard: “Nigeria is a difficult country as it is funny. My drift is that everybody has a complaint, and this will be the fact of life forever. Living together, even by a husband and wife who contracted marriage on the basis of love, are precipitators of complains. If you have never quarreled with your new wife, go home and anchor your hands together and see what happens within a few minutes.
“I think the important thing is that we have all consciously or unconsciously consented to being together as one country, and this has more benefits than being in different but smaller countries and on each other’s neck. If Nigeria breaks into two or three or more countries, each new country would demand that everybody moves to his own new country.
“Even before the sad event (God forbid), some people have begun demanding that. Now, don’t you see a huge problem in that situation? The solution is to sit down and listen to everybody’s complaint so that we can make adjustments. We will continue to make adjustments as long as we live together.
“The problems of wider Nigeria also exist in all the states of the federation. There are small IPoBs everywhere, and while we plan to deal decidedly with Nnamdi Kanu’s IPoB, we also need to think into the future and have a plan for the resolution of the problems of this kind whenever they arise.
“However, all sensible people, throughout the country and beyond, must condemn, in absolute terms, the killing of innocent people in the South-East and the South-South, while making sure that reprisal attacks do not have a place in the North. Patriotic southern leaders must come out of their cocoons and call these hooligans to order before the situation gets out of hand. Security agencies know what to do.”
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