Forget Biafra, North central has all it takes to stand as a country - PDP founding member

North Central can stand as an independent
country - Professor Shown

- Professor Dakum Shown said the north
central can stay as an independent country

- The PDP founding member said people make
the mistake of lumping the north together

- He said someone from plateau will feel more
comfortable with an Igbo person

Professor Dakum Shown who is a second Republic
politician and founding member of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the North Central
can stand alone as a single country.

The issue of disintegration of the country has been
fuelled by the agitation for an independent Biafra
state championed by the Indigenous People Of Biafra
(IPOB).

The Sun reports that Professor Shown said he north
central can also stand on its own faulting those who
just use the broad term, “northern Nigeria” to
lump together all the people in the region.

He said: “What is north? Where is the geographical
location of the north, it lost it values long time ago
when states were created. The north is just an
imagination of your brain, there are so many things
that the North East and the North West don’t agree
on, and the North Central too disagree with the North East on so many things, so what is this idea of the
North?

“For example, a Plateau person will trust an Igbo
more than a Hausa man, so where is the North? I
laugh when I hear people talk about the North.

“North Central can be a country on its own, we have
everything to exist as a country, but no country exists
in isolation.”

Meanwhile, The Movement for Actualisation of
Sovereign State of Biafra issued a six-month
ultimatum to the federal government asking it to conduct a referendum in the south east region.

MASSOB alongside other pro-Biafra groups have been
agitating for an independent Biafra state and
according to The Sun, the group said elections will not
take place in the south east region if a referendum is
not conducted.

The group said: “MASSOB, Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) and other genuine pro- Biafran groups
will mobilise the people against 2019 general election
in all Biafran territory to boycott the election if federal
government refuses to conduct a referendum for the
exit of Biafra from Nigeria.”