Biafra: Obasanjo Asking Buhari To Dialogue With Kanu ‘Funny, Unbelievable’ – Orji Kalu

Former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, has suggested that ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo lacks the moral justification to advise President Muhammadu Buhari to dialogue with Nnamdi Kanu over the latter’s Biafra agitation.

The WHISTLER recalls that Obasanjo had previously said if he were in President Buhari’s shoes, he would invite Kanu to the Presidential Villa to make known his grievance and possibly meet the demands of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

But Orji Kalu, in an interview with PUNCH, questioned the moral judgement with which the former president made the statement after allegedly refusing to meet with Biafra agitators during his regime.

“I was the governor (of Abia State) for eight years and the issue of Biafra came up then. It even became a serious issue at a time that I decided to lead (Ralph) Uwazurike to see (former) President (Olusegun) Obasanjo but the former president refused to receive him,” said Orji Kalu.

“I was then surprised that the same Obasanjo was advising President Muhammadu Buhari to dialogue with (Nnamdi) Kanu.

“That sounds very funny to my ears and I don’t believe that such statement could come from the respected elder statesman who once told me at the Villa that he will never engage in a dialogue with somebody who wanted Nigeria to break up.

“There are so many federal roads in the eastern part of the country that are in serious dilapidated conditions but President Buhari has been fixing some of them now.

“If the immediate past government led by my brother and friend, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, had paid a little attention to the terrible infrastructure decay in the South-East and South-South geopolitical zones, there won’t be any form of agitation in the first instance.

“Some of these people involved in the Biafran agitation are doing so out of frustration. Climate change had really dealt with most communities in the South-East leading to flooding and massive erosion.

“So, the Igbo should produce a leader that will fix the economic and infrastructural challenges affecting not only the Igbo but the entire Nigeria,” the former governor said.