The leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday, said that the alleged accommodation of northern interests over those of other majority and minority groups in the count
ry by successive governments was fuelling secessionists agitations in the country.
In a paper presented by Kanu, to the European Union Parliament on Tuesday, a copy of which was made available toby IPOB’s Deputy Leader, Uche Mefor, the IPOB leader said “After the Nigeria Biafra Civil war, Biafrans slowly rebuilt their world, but as far as Nigeria was concerned, they were not and never had been Biafrans, but were Nigerians from South-East or Igbo-speaking Nigerians.”’Kanu added, “Biafran war was airbrushed out of the Nigerian consciousness.
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