Mr Sowore also speaks on the award of surveillance contract to Tompolo by the Nigerian government.
, has said he would adopt “selective approaches” to address security challenges and concerns in various parts of Nigeria.The outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra is leading the agitation for an independent state of Biafra which it wants carved out from the South-east and some parts of the South-south Nigeria.Niger Delta militants have been accused of being behind recurring attacks on crude oil pipelines in the South-south.
Similarly, a group known as Ilana Omo Oodua has been agitating for an independent Yoruba nation in the South-west. One person wasMr Sowore said, if elected Nigeria’s president in 2023, he would evolve different approaches that will address such “peculiar security challenges and concerns” across the country.
“If you had done justice to the South-east after the civil war, for instance, nobody will be agitating for Biafra,” he said. “Mostly importantly, without solving the socio-economic problems of our people, we can’t get the kind of security that we need.”
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