Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has berated the act of denying Easterners the presidency because they planned to secede.
The elder statesman said all regions are guilty of planning secession at one time or the other.
He made this remark while addressing a 20-man delegation of the League of Northern Democrats, led by former Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau, at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The elder statesman recalled that there was a strong move by the North to pull out of Nigeria through what he called the vehicle of Araba.
“I think all of us in Nigeria have to rethink… It bleeds my heart when people say because the Igbo had carried out a secession, an Igbo man cannot be the president of Nigeria.
“I say what nonsense? There is no section of Nigeria that has not planned a secession. What is ‘Araba’ in the North? The North planned to break up Nigeria. Ahmed Jooda, a very good friend of mine, said that.
“What is treasonable felony? So, who among us can say I am better than the other? None! So, let us put our heads together and build a country together,” he said.
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