One thing Biafra was good at was propaganda.
Propaganda involves selling your story to people.
Biafra was not good at military and political strategy, but they were good at selling their story.
Nigeria is again at a crossroads in dealing with Biafran propaganda.
The goal here is to win political concessions for Igbo people by milking Biafra sympathy.
People have rightly warned that the virulent efforts by such warriors to refuse to integrate themselves into Nigeria implies serious consequences.
These characters, however, refuse to take heed.
I hereby call on all Nigerians to be alert.
Igbos are not your enemies.
But anybody who insists that Nigeria alone is responsible for the catastrophe of Biafra, and that they must make Nigeria pay for that catastrophe, is your enemy.
The person who threatens Nigeria with violence if Nigerians don’t swallow the theory of an Igbo genocide is an enemy of Nigeria.
The person who claims Igbos must get their pound of flesh from Nigeria because of a spurious genocide claim, while refusing to address the issue of Biafran leaders who betrayed their people to starvation so as to keep on fighting a losing war, is an enemy of Nigeria.
Nigerians will not sleep.
They are not fools.
Anybody who wants to be a part of Nigeria is welcome to share the national space with the more than one hundred ethnicities in that space.
Anybody who does not want to share but insists that he will agitate unless he is given preferential treatment, needs to decide where they belong.
Note, all land within Nigeria belongs to Nigeria.
Any effort to unilaterally excise such land for any other national entity is an act of war.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
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