In yet another interview granted primarily to foreign news media, President Muhammadu Buhari addressed the presidency’s intolerant stance concerning Biafran agitators in Nigeria. Buhari also stated how his administration feels about the International Monetary Funds’ (IMF) advice regarding the current condition of Nigeria’s economy during his visit to Qatar last week.
According to him, the Nigerian Civil War claimed the lives of at least two million Nigerians around four decades ago, thus the present agitators (who were most likely not even born at the time, in his opinion) are simply jokers and a threat to national security.
Buhari made it clear that his administration is not interested in a dialogue with the Biafran supporters in South-East Nigeria and even refused to watch a video clip of a clash between the Nigerian Army and a group of supporters carrying out a peaceful protest. Buhari went further to state that those planning to break up the country would face the wrath of the Nigerian security forces.
On the situation that the Nigerian economy is presently faced with, Buhari boldly admitted that Nigeria may actually be going against the advice of the IMF to devalue the Naira since it is not in the country’s national interest to do so. The president commented that Nigeria cannot afford to devalue its currency like other countries that have stronger infrastructures and enormous production output.