The social media has been flooded with condemnation over President Muhammadu Buhari's statement as contained in an interview with Sahara Reporters. His utterance is skewed to Biafra agitators, whose hope of vacating Nigeria is suffering a huge setback over the extra-judiciary incarceration of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the foremost Biafra activist who has been in detention nearly a year now, and with no sentence from the court yet.
This statement was released during a press event in New York City of the United States of America at the 71th United Nations General Assembly. He advised the Biafra activists to makeup a political party that would advance their interest within the Nigerian democratic space.
This was prodded by the Sit-At-Home order that came from the IPOB(Indegenous People of Biafra), and had the commercial activities of the South-East and parts of the South-South zones crippled on the 23rd day of September being Friday.
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKSEP 24, 2016
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari today seized any chance for a decision as an approach to pass on retouching and conclusion to the vexing issue of Biafra. He set forth the expression in the midst of a media event in New York City toward the end of his visit to the United States as the pioneer of Nigeria's task to the 71th United Nations' General Assembly.
The president communicated that the choice left for Biafran activists is to makeup a political party that would advance their interest within the Nigerian democratic space.
The president's suggestion to Biafrans activists came a day after business practices in some key urban groups in the South East, and South-South of Nigeria were grounded taking after a Sit-at-Home solicitation from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB ). There were similarly contradicts in various urban territories around the world by Biafran activists asking for the release from prison of IPOB's pioneer, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.
In later past, the president had been careless of Biafran instigators as youngsters who did not see the Biafra-Nigeria Civil War. Several weeks back, while tending to Youth Corp people who went to him at his country home in Daura, the president continued them to demand that their friends disregard Biafra.
Mr. Buhari furthermore used the open entryway offered by the media event to outline the accomplishments of his excursion to the General Assembly. He communicated that Nigeria was all around addressed at various get-togethers held as an element of the General Assembly. President Buhari talked about Nigeria's stamping of the Paris Climate Change Accord and progress made at the Chad Basin gathering. He pronounced that the US and the UK swore over $300 million dollars to support the tries of his organization.
Media work power at the event were baffled that the president was not going to take questions from the media despite the event being named an open meeting. At the solicitation of SaharaTV's Adeola Fayehun, the president rethought the position and took just three request. He in like manner surrendered a ten-minute meeting to the Hausa Service of the Voice of America.
Running with the president to the event were the governors of Lagos and Zamfara states. Other government powers present were priests of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Defense, Internal Affairs and other top government powers.
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