The Ebonyi State Governor, and Chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum, David Umahi, has reaffirmed that his state will not take part in the struggle for the actualization of Biafra.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Umahi who stated this on Sunday during a reception in his honour by his supporters, after the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential ticket contest in Abuja, lamented that Ebonyi people have “been so oppressed”.
“In the comity of South-East, Ebonyi people are not regarded. I continue to say that Ebonyi will never be Biafra,” Umahi said.
More than 50 years ago, Nigeria was nearly divided by a bloody civil war that led to the deaths of over a million people. Now, a revival in secessionist sentiment in southeastern Nigeria among supporters of the historical state of Biafra has resurfaced.
Tensions continue to flare as a prominent separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu, remains in detention while the response of the Nigerian government to his group, the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been strict.
