President Mohammadu Buhari has said\u00a0 his administration would not tolerate the agitation for a\u00a0 state of Biafra.<\/p>\n
The president recorded so many gaffes speaking to Aljazeera television during his last visit to Qatar.<\/p>\n
In that interview he justified the membership of Nigeria in the Islamic Coalition against terror,\u00a0 and why his children are in school abroad.<\/p>\n
Buhari who had blamed foreign education, capital flight\u00a0 for the fate of the Naira, simply said “my children school abroad because I can afford it”<\/p>\n
Buhari recalled that over two million lives were lost during the Nigeria civil war between 1967 to 1970 on the demand of a Biafran state.<\/p>\n
He said \u201cAt least two millions Nigerians were killed in the Biafra war. And for somebody to wake up may be they weren\u2019t born. Looking for Biafra after two millions people were killed, they are joking with the security and Nigeria won\u2019t tolerate Biafra.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also speaking on the state of Nigerian economy and the pressure to devalue the Naira , president Buhari stated that Nigeria was prepared to go against the advice on International Monetary Fund, IMF in that regard.<\/p>\n
He maintained that the devaluation of the Naira would not pay Nigeria, saying the country was purely an import nation. ALSO READ\u00a0 FG To Buy Buses From China Worth N5.5Billion He also stated their despite the plummeting crude oil prices in the international market, it would pay Nigeria to remain in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC. \u201cIf it is against our national interest, why can\u2019t we go against the IMF advice?\u201d Buhari asks. \u201cWe were unable to diversify our economy, hence we are much more disadvantaged by the lower oil prices. Nigeria will make the necessary sacrifice to remain in OPEC\u201d, he said. Asked to comment on the anti-terrorism war, the president headed a sigh of relief that no local government area of Nigeria was under the control of the Boko haram insurgents as was the case when he assumed office in May 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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