Rev Simeon Nwaulu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that a strict adherence to the principles of federal character can quell the storm stirred by the ongoing Biafra agitation.
Nwaulu, the National Coordinator of Rochas Fan Club, urged the federal government to strictly adhere to the tenets of the federal character, as a means to restore peace to the federation.
He proffered the solution on Wednesday,November 25, at a press conference in Owerri, Imo state.
There in Owerri, Nwaulu noted that marginalisation has become one of the burning issues in the country that needs to be addressed for peace to reign.
Therefore, he stressed that a revisit of the federal character will be a panacea for the agitation of Biafra.
He said: “There is no doubt that of all the six geo-political zones of Nigeria, the Southeast is the most marginalised in everything.”
The APC henchman, noted that the former vice president, Dr Alex Ekwueme, and few others spearheaded the formation of Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in 1998,“but shockingly, he was denied the presidential ticket of the party in 1999, because he was from the South-East zone. Owelle Rochas Okorocha was denied twice the presidential ticket in 2003 and 2007 because he was from the South East.
“The resurgence of pro- Biafra agitators is due to the marginalisation of the people of South-East and the Federal Government has to urgently address this anomaly if there is to be progress in the country,” Nwaulu opined.
Meanwhile, a popular prophet in Imo state has prophesied that Nigeria will be drenched in blood if the federal government refuses to release the chief agitator for Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi.
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