Garba told news men that as far as he was concerned, Nigerians paid the ultimate prize of going to a-three-year civil war, where over one million people lost their lives.
According to him, those who are protesting for a State of Biafra have no information about the political history of the country, adding that the issue of Biafra was settled at the end of that civil war.
“Remember that this country fought a civil war for 30 months in which one million people were killed. The issue of Biafra was settled at the end of that civil war.
“What is there again? It is people who haven’t read Nigerian history and don’t know about it that are trying to raise new dust.”
Recently, Buhari was said to have thrown his weight behind the liberation of the Saharawi people in Morocco, a statement which most Nigerians frowned at against the agitation of the Biafra group.
Garba said: “For anybody to make comparison between Western Sahara and Biafra, that is a display of knowledge deficit in international politics. One, Western Sahara is a classic case of decolonization.
“It is the last remaining colony on the African continent and we all owe it a duty to ourselves to liberate Western Sahara.
“In fact, as military Head of State, President Buhari was the first to recognize Western Sahara and then the rest of Africa followed.
“So, he is being consistent. But Biafra is for the dismemberment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which is already a settled entity. These two scenarios are clearly different.” [myad]
