Former military ruler of Nigeria Yakubu Gowon speaking to Kaduna senator Shehu Sani who paid him a visit at his residence today, said that the Buhari-led Federal Government should do something to stop Biafra from tearing away.
His words:
“We can restructure within one Nigeria context. I did it in 1967; we created states to stop eastern Nigeria from seceding. “We had to do something to ensure the fear of their seceding did not exist; a serious issue of a part of the country wanting to breakaway when we already lost a part to Cameroon.
“If we had allowed the eastern region to go away, the map of Nigeria would have looked funny; it would have been tilted one way.
“So, we decided overnight to break the fear through the creation of states. If we had to save the country that was the only way to do it. “We also ensured that no state was too big or too small to threaten the unity of the country.”
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