Nigeria’s onetime President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari must come across amongst Biafran secessionist leader Nnamdi Kanu earlier violence betwixt the reason forces as well as separatists escalates into a full-blown conflict.
Speaking to Newsweek inwards London, Obasanjo says that the heavy-handed tactics of the Nigerian acre against pro-Biafra activists, a secessionist drive that is pushing for an independent state, bring non succeeded, as well as a to a greater extent than conciliatory approach is needed.
“Those who fought the country of war inwards Biafra volition non desire to manage whatever other war. No. I fought inwards that war. It’s an unfortunate country of war as well as I said that I fought 1 country of war also many inwards Nigeria. Heavy kick is non the solution. I believe that whatever may live on the frustration of whatever grouping inwards Nigeria, secession is non the solution.
“I don’t watch anything incorrect inwards that [Buhari coming together amongst Kanu]. I would non object to that; if anything, I would encourage it,” Obasanjo told Newsweek.
“I would desire to come across Kanu myself as well as speak to people similar him, people of his age, [and ask:] ‘What are your worries?’ Not alone from the southeast simply from all parts of Nigeria,” the onetime president said.