How COAS Attahiru’s secret meeting with Gov El-Rufai backfired – Biafra League

The Biafra Nations League (BNL) has alleged that the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a crash of military aircraft last Friday in Kaduna, held a secret meeting with Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State before his death. The group alleged that the meeting was based on hatred for the Igbo in the southeast and the plot to continue to exclude them from federal engagements. The BNL Deputy National Leader, and Head of Operations, Ebuta Akor Takon, in a media interaction on Sunday, in Ikom, Cross River State, was of the view that the hatred for the Igbo was the reason no Eastern officer was selected to be on the entourage of the Chief of Army Staff, which turned to be a saving grace and excluding the southeast from the casualties in the military plane crash and the subsequent mourning of their son. He said that the secret meeting eventually backfired.

Ebuta Akor Takon had declared: “I give Glory to God, nobody from the old Eastern region was among them, they sidelined our people in the army to go and hold secret meeting with El-Rufai and it backfired.”

The BNL deputy national leader berated President Mohammadu Buhari for his absence from the funeral of the late Chief of Army Staff at the Abuja cemetery last Saturday. Ebuta Akor Takon in his mindset declared: “Nigeria is not a country to die for.”

The deputy national leader of the Biafra Nations League emphasized that the exclusion of the people from the defunct Eastern region, was the main reason for the exclusion of the Igbo man from the deaths recorded in the military plane crash which included the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru.

Ebuta Akor Takon recalled that the Nigerian Army recently launched seven days operation show of force in the southeast, targeting Biafra agitators rather than going after the unknown gunmen who have been invading and burning police stations, destroying security facilities and killing security operatives.

Ebuta Akor Takon moted that nobody from Igbo land or the south-south was invited for the purported Kaduna meeting, nor the meeting of the Service Chiefs met President Buhari where they discussed the security situation in the southeast and made decisions. He decried that there was no representative from the southeast among the military officers who attended the meeting.

Ebuta Akor Takon reiterated that the hatred for the southeast made the military hierarchy not select any officer from the zone for the trip, who, in his view, would have died with the COAS and others.

Meanwhile, President Buhari had declared three days mourning for the late Chief of Army Staff, directing that the national flag be flown at half mask across the country. The national mourning entered the second day on Tuesday and was widely observed across Nigeria.

Lt. Gen. Attahiru died on active service in Kaduna.