“The number of those Igbo asking for Biafra is not more than 10 percent. Majority of the Igbo crave for a better Nigeria particularly because of their experience and they are prepared to fight for the unity of Nigeria.
“Majority of Igbo leaders have said in clear terms that they want a better Nigeria where they can expand because they are enterprising in nature. As you are aware, people who are enterprising would prefer a big community as against a small one.
“Some of them desire a better Nigeria because they don’t want the previous experience of war to repeat itself.”
These were the views of the second Republic executive governor of Kaduna state, under the late Aminu Kano Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Alhaji Balarabe Musa in an interview in Kaduna.
Balarabe Musa said that however that the fews Igbo people calling for separation from Nigeria are doing so because they have not had their fair share in the scheme of things in Nigeria.
According to him, since the civil war ended, Igbo people have not been treated as co-owners of the country, warning that in spite of the negligible number of agitators, the mere agitation for Biafra and poverty in the country are ticking time-bombs. [myad]
