Why Agitations for Biafra not Serious Yet, by Tejuoso

The Senator representing Ogun Central Federal Constituency, Senator Dapo Tejuoso, has said agitations for the Biafran nation lack the required significance because the South-East people are still represented in the National Assembly.

Senator Tejuoso, who expressed the view in a chat in Abuja, noted that those shouting were outside the system, adding that until the representatives of the people of South East in the National Assembly begin to talk about it, it would remain a non-issue and insignificant.

According to Tejuoso, the agitations would become a serious issue only when the people of the zone come up through their representatives in the National Assembly to say they want to form a new country as expected in a democratic setting.

“As far as I am concerned, the South East is still represented in the senate; they have their own senators, they have their House of Representatives members, they have not come up through any of these process to say they want to form another country; those who are shouting are those outside the system. “So, for me, it is the day, senators start talking about it, that House of Representatives members start talking about it, it is then that it will make serious importance, but we are running democracy. For instance, the day they said people should stay at home and they too stayed at home; their House of Representatives members did not stay at home and these are the people representing them.”