Salihu Tanko Yakasai, a former Special Political Adviser to former President Shehu Shagari, has come under criticisms for over his comments on Igbos agitating for their own country – Biafra.
Yakasai had stated that it amounted to playing to the gallery if the same people clamouring to be on their own, still lived and did business in other states of Nigeria, which they were seeking to exit.
In response to the story, most of the commentators on DAILY POST Facebook page, lambasted the elder statesman.
Although Yakasai got some pat on the back, their defense was outnumbered by pro-Biafra reponses.
The majority hold the view that living and doing business with other ethnics will not stop groups like indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) from the secession struggle.
Below are some of the commentaries…
Anthony Ekenze: If the Igbo have to come back from the north then the north will be like the deserts bcos Igbos equipped the northern states.  Chineye Ehiodo: Baba, don’t you do business in Saudi Arabia, UK, US, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Japan, Malaysia, China? Are you from there? Smh! Make another hate comment outside loss of memory.
Isah Usman: Let not generalized not all igbos are unpatriotic. just some few unsophisticated unenlightened one’s among them. That are being misled by a sophisticated criminal miscreant like Mazi Albino kanu the black Jewish messiah for desperate self recognition and financial gains. But for this few mischievous indigenous morons my message to them is they are free to move out of our cities back to the EAST. You can’t ask for divorce because you claim to be in an abusive marriage. But you still want to stay in same house with your abuser. Keep all the benefits that comes with the marriage. I don’t think so.  Maxwell John: Some people think with their anus, does it mean someone from a particular country cannot own or run business in another country? Go to Togo, Ghana, Rebulic of Benin and see how the Igbos are controlling their markets. Even when Biafra finally arrives, the Igbos will still controls the Nigeria market. That’s their calling, abi na the abokis wen no know pass gworo and other petty business go fit run large-scale business?  Oboh Ernest: Yakassi you are called? stop being primitive in your thinking. That igbos should stop doing business with other tribes because they want their country is too primitive of any thinking.  Emeka Udedike: This is the reason why Nnamdi kanu call Nigeria zoo. Last time I checked, Nigeria is a country of there own but they do business in other countries around the world. Pls get sense…
Festus Ikpibako: You the northerners will soon stop doing business with the South
Kanu Ikenna Kenmoore: We are waiting for the United Nation to announce. Up Biafra.
Meltus Oparaeke: But your people still live abroad and have not been chased home, have a rethink Mr Yakasai  Walter Oyas Aregha: As simple as that, let the protest start from your actions, withdraw your businesses from Nigeria, sell your houses from Nigeria, relocate to your igbo land, then demand for biafra.  Onyebuchy Hookz: Foolish old man. What has doing business got to do with our choice of independent. Or you just want to open that your anus called mouth. Dey there it will surprise you and your gullible people.
Serny Abdul Kerrym Serks: 1. He said the process of Igbo doing business will be difficult. 2. How many south Sudanese are doing business in northern Sudan. 3. Do you think capital flight will be easy to move to biafra 4. what happens to local content 5. import ban etc many Ibos don’t really understand the difference between trading and economy as a whole.  Abdullahi Shehu Danmusa: All igbos supporting Biafara are bunch of unemployment and political thugs, but if you interview the top Igbo business men all against these Drama by these parasite.
Ifeanyi Steve: The bullet of your brothers boko haram will meet you one day
Chinua Iyke: Sometimes I wonder how this people reason. So because they want there own country you will chase them from your land or kill them its a pity I share world with this kinda of animals. anywhere they are, their answer to everything is kill kill kill..what a pity
Ifeanyi Steve: Biafra existence will mark the end of your generation  Anenechukwu Eze: All this are indications that the north are afraid of disintegration.they know suffering is going to be their second name. 95% teachers in public schools in the north are NYSC members  Muhammad Tijjani: I will be the happiest man on earth if Nigeria is divided  Adekunle Maiye: That is the best way to start your agitations, stop doing business with other tribes, let your elites resign from where they work. Leave in droves and relocate to the east, after all nobody will stop you from going home. If you can not do all these now , please hold your peace and let us be.  Hanson Ekine: This Hausa people ‘re really empty upstairs.  Max Okechukwu: At your age, u are still talking like a fool.
Ogbodo Jude: Lol this shows how far an average Hausa Fulani man can reason, we have biafrans all over the countries around the world doing business and they’re safer in those countries than the country they call theirs, don’t worry let us go first, then we will talk on whether to relate or not, that’s how its done dead brain animal.  Emeka Udedike: Your President is taking treatment in another mans country, maybe London is a Nigerian state. cow talking.
Mikail Lukman Lukman: Biafra is a fiasco and it shall never take place somewhere on the earth planet insha Allah. Neither in Africa nor elsewhere on earth planet. Nnamdi KANU shall soon run to French countries (Gabon, cote d’ivoire) the way Emeka Ojukwu did. Nigeria is the most black populous nation in the world so respecting Nigeria is indeed respecting the black race,her unity is one and indivisible, unconditional and untouchable no matter whose ox is gored.  Ike Ernest Obiora: Yakasai if we come to buy don’t sell to us then we also know that you northerners are ready to allow us to be.  Ebi Igbiriki: Like Taiwan and hong Kong no longer do business with China,or Serbia and Montenegro became life enemies when they separate.What is all this talk about  Walter Oyas Aregha: As simple as that, let the protest start from your actions, withdraw your businesses from Nigeria, sell your houses from Nigeria, relocate to your igbo land, then demand for biafra, we in South south will support you to have your biafra exempting us sha.  Adekunle Maiye: That is the best way to start your agitations, stop doing business with other tribes, let your elites resign from where they work. Leave in droves and relocate to the east, after all nobody will stop you from going home. If you can not do all these now, please hold your peace and let us be.  Mike Ezenwa: Just as other nations of the world should stop living and doing business with your Nigeria. Cow head ignorance!  Thompson Gail Thompson: your fear is that if they should stop,you are doomed. meanwhile, no country survives on it own, they all have allies. you asking Biafra to quit business with others shows that you don’t have sense.  Teyjay Oguns: How is having another country a problem in doing business? If he, Yakassi and co can travel all far South Africa to live and do business, isn’t it obvious dat Biafrans can own dia country and do business in Nigeria; and likewise himself Yakasai, to still live and do biznes in Biafraland?  Harrison Emmanuel: At your age u still talking or reasoning as a fool which I think you are, don’t you do business with other nationalities or live with them? Well it is too late to cry when the head is already off.
Yakasai had stated that it amounted to playing to the gallery if the same people clamouring to be on their own, still live and do business in other states of Nigeria, which they are seeking to exit.
In response to the story, most of the commentators on DAILY POST Facebook page, lambasted the elder statesman.
Although Yakasai got some pat on the back, their defense was outnumbered by pro-Biafra reponses.
Mjority hold the view that living and doing business with other ethnics will not stop groups like indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) from the secession struggle.
Below are some of the commentaries…
Anthony Ekenze: If the Igbo have to come back from the north then the north will be like the deserts bcos Igbos equipped the northern states.  Chineye Ehiodo: Baba, don’t you do business in Saudi Arabia, UK, US, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Japan, Malaysia, China? Are you from there? Smh! Make another hate comment outside loss of memory.
Isah Usman: Let not generalized not all igbos are unpatriotic. just some few unsophisticated unenlightened one’s among them. That are being misled by a sophisticated criminal miscreant like Mazi Albino kanu the black Jewish messiah for desperate self recognition and financial gains. But for this few mischievous indigenous morons my message to them is they are free to move out of our cities back to the EAST. You can’t ask for divorce because you claim to be in an abusive marriage. But you still want to stay in same house with your abuser. Keep all the benefits that comes with the marriage. I don’t think so.  Maxwell John: Some people think with their anus, does it mean someone from a particular country cannot own or run business in another country? Go to Togo, Ghana, Rebulic of Benin and see how the Igbos are controlling their markets. Even when Biafra finally arrives, the Igbos will still controls the Nigeria market. That’s their calling, abi na the abokis wen no know pass gworo and other petty business go fit run large-scale business?  Oboh Ernest: Yakassi you are called? stop being primitive in your thinking. That igbos should stop doing business with other tribes because they want their country is too primitive of any thinking.  Emeka Udedike: This is the reason why Nnamdi kanu call Nigeria zoo. Last time I checked, Nigeria is a country of there own but they do business in other countries around the world. Pls get sense…
Festus Ikpibako: You the northerners will soon stop doing business with the South
Kanu Ikenna Kenmoore: We are waiting for the United Nation to announce. Up Biafra.
Meltus Oparaeke: But your people still live abroad and have not been chased home, have a rethink Mr Yakasai  Walter Oyas Aregha: As simple as that, let the protest start from your actions, withdraw your businesses from Nigeria, sell your houses from Nigeria, relocate to your igbo land, then demand for biafra.  Onyebuchy Hookz: Foolish old man. What has doing business got to do with our choice of independent. Or you just want to open that your anus called mouth. Dey there it will surprise you and your gullible people.
Serny Abdul Kerrym Serks: 1. He said the process of Igbo doing business will be difficult. 2. How many south Sudanese are doing business in northern Sudan. 3. Do you think capital flight will be easy to move to biafra 4. what happens to local content 5. import ban etc many Ibos don’t really understand the difference between trading and economy as a whole.  Abdullahi Shehu Danmusa: All igbos supporting Biafara are bunch of unemployment and political thugs, but if you interview the top Igbo business men all against these Drama by these parasite.
Ifeanyi Steve: The bullet of your brothers boko haram will meet you one day
Chinua Iyke: Sometimes I wonder how this people reason. So because they want there own country you will chase them from your land or kill them its a pity I share world with this kinda of animals. anywhere they are, their answer to everything is kill kill kill..what a pity
Ifeanyi Steve: Biafra existence will mark the end of your generation  Anenechukwu Eze: All this are indications that the north are afraid of disintegration.they know suffering is going to be their second name. 95% teachers in public schools in the north are NYSC members  Muhammad Tijjani: I will be the happiest man on earth if Nigeria is divided  Adekunle Maiye: That is the best way to start your agitations, stop doing business with other tribes, let your elites resign from where they work. Leave in droves and relocate to the east, after all nobody will stop you from going home. If you can not do all these now , please hold your peace and let us be.  Hanson Ekine: This Hausa people ‘re really empty upstairs.  Max Okechukwu: At your age, u are still talking like a fool.
Ogbodo Jude: Lol this shows how far an average Hausa Fulani man can reason, we have biafrans all over the countries around the world doing business and they’re safer in those countries than the country they call theirs, don’t worry let us go first, then we will talk on whether to relate or not, that’s how its done dead brain animal.  Emeka Udedike: Your President is taking treatment in another mans country, maybe London is a Nigerian state. cow talking.
Mikail Lukman Lukman: Biafra is a fiasco and it shall never take place somewhere on the earth planet insha Allah. Neither in Africa nor elsewhere on earth planet. Nnamdi KANU shall soon run to French countries (Gabon, cote d’ivoire) the way Emeka Ojukwu did. Nigeria is the most black populous nation in the world so respecting Nigeria is indeed respecting the black race,her unity is one and indivisible, unconditional and untouchable no matter whose ox is gored.  Ike Ernest Obiora: Yakasai if we come to buy don’t sell to us then we also know that you northerners are ready to allow us to be.  Ebi Igbiriki: Like Taiwan and hong Kong no longer do business with China,or Serbia and Montenegro became life enemies when they separate.What is all this talk about  Walter Oyas Aregha: As simple as that, let the protest start from your actions, withdraw your businesses from Nigeria, sell your houses from Nigeria, relocate to your igbo land, then demand for biafra, we in South south will support you to have your biafra exempting us sha.  Adekunle Maiye: That is the best way to start your agitations, stop doing business with other tribes, let your elites resign from where they work. Leave in droves and relocate to the east, after all nobody will stop you from going home. If you can not do all these now, please hold your peace and let us be.  Mike Ezenwa: Just as other nations of the world should stop living and doing business with your Nigeria. Cow head ignorance!  Thompson Gail Thompson: your fear is that if they should stop,you are doomed. meanwhile, no country survives on it own, they all have allies. you asking Biafra to quit business with others shows that you don’t have sense.  Teyjay Oguns: How is having another country a problem in doing business? If he, Yakassi and co can travel all far South Africa to live and do business, isn’t it obvious dat Biafrans can own dia country and do business in Nigeria; and likewise himself Yakasai, to still live and do biznes in Biafraland?  Harrison Emmanuel: At your age u still talking or reasoning as a fool which I think you are, don’t you do business with other nationalities or live with them? Well it is too late to cry when the head is already off.
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