- Ayo Adebanjo, a leader of Afenifere, faults Yemi Osinbajo for citing the unity in multicultural US as an example of how Nigerians should live together
- Adebanjo says Nigerians were being forced to stay together
- The Afenifere leader states that the question of Biafra is not about separation, but on how Nigerians want to live in peace on agreed terms
Ayo Adebanjo, a leader of Afenifere, the Yoruba socio-political organisation, has criticised acting president, Yemi Osinbajo, for asking Nigerians to emulate the unity in multicultural US.
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Osinbajo, speaking at the Biafra conference in Abuja on Thursday, May 25 had cited the unity in multicultural US as an example of how Nigerians should live together.
The acting president had noted that US with its diverse people and cultures had been able to evolve to become the greatest country on the planet.
Adebanjo said Nigerians were being forced to stay together.
However, reacting to Osinbajo’s statement, Adebanjo in his presentation said American citizens were not forced to live together.
The Afenifere leader argued that Nigerians were being forced to stay together, which he added would not help the development country, The Cable reports.
He said: “The question of Biafra is not about separation, the question is how we want to live in peace on agreed terms. Anybody opposed to restructuring is an enemy of Nigeria,” he said.
“The acting president gave a wrong synopsis of living together, he cited America. Americans sat together to discuss their existence.”
NAIJ.com had earlier reported that the Shehu Musa Yar'adua Foundation in collaboration with the Ford Foundation hosted the maiden edition of the remembrance of the Nigerian-Biafra civil war which took place in 1967.
The event, "Memory and Nation Building, Biafra : 50 Years After" was themed: "A sober reflection".
The event hosted a number of Nigerian dignitaries including former president Olusegun Obasanjo, a former permanent secretary of the ministry of information Ahmed Joda, the president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo John Nnia-Nwodo.
Others includes: the former minster of education Obiageli Ezekwesili, renowned economist Pat Utomi, John Stremlau of the university of Witwatersrand, former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission Chidi Odinkalu among many others.
In the NAIJ.com video below, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo at the #Biafra50 event says Nigeria is greater together than apart.