Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that it is not fair to blame only the Igbo for attempting to secede from Nigeria.
This is as the former Nigerian leader said the country’s three major ethnic nationalities had at one time or another attempted to break up the nation through secession.
He said he usually felt bad each time he heard some people saying no Igbo man would become Nigeria’s President because of the ethnic nationality’s involvement in the bloody January 15, 1966 coup that truncated the First Republic.
Obasanjo stated that there were Nigerians from other parts of the country who also attempted to secede from Nigeria.
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