Following the current insecurity and unrest in the South-East region of the country, the Coalition of Northern Group (CNG) on Thursday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to hand over the Biafra to the Igbos’s as a means to put a stop to the issue.
The CNG made the call in a statement while reacting to the recent ‘civil war’ threat by President Buhari to clamp down on the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and other elements in the Southeast for allegedly attacking security operatives and destroying government facilities in the region.
This however, led to social media outrage by some Nigerians, who took to their Twitter handles to tackle the president over his ‘disturbing’ comment, Following the incident, Twitter on Wednesday deleted the controversial tweet posted on its site.
While most Nigerians were pleased with the deletion, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed slammed Twitter over the move, alleging that the management has double standards.
He said, “It is time for the Nigerian state and all stakeholders to wake to the reality that the only remaining option to avoid a civil war is for the Igbo to be allowed to have the Biafra they have used intermittently for decades to destabilize the nation and deny peace to other components of the country.”
Culled from Independent.ng
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