“Tell your colleagues who want Biafra to forget about it. As a military commander, I walked from Degem, a border town between the North and the East to the border between Cameroon and Nigeria. “I walked on my foot for most of the 30 months that we fought the Nigeria-Biafra civil war in which at least two million Nigerians were killed. “We were made by our leaders to go and fight Biafra not because of money or oil, because oil was not critical factor then, but because of one Nigeria. “So, if leaderships at various levels failed, it was not the fault of the rest of Nigerians who have no quarrel with one another. “So, please tell your colleagues that we must be together to build this country. It is big enough for us and potentially big enough in terms of resources. “Those who work hard will earn a respectable living. I have seen this country, I fought for this country and I will continue to work for the unity of this country’’
-President Muhammadu Buhari in a counter-narrative of the Biafran agitation when he received members of NYSC serving in Daura, Katsina in the course of his Sallah holidays there.
