The 73-year-old Commander-in-Chief lashed out at agitators for a break-up of the Southeast from the federation in the name Biafra.
''Recently, some people who were not even born during the war are saying they want to divide Nigeria. I always say the civil war was fought for the unity of Nigeria because then we hadn’t even discovered oil let alone enjoying it. But two million people were killed,'' Buhari said on Monday while speaking at the palace of the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabiru Usman, as part of the activities of his official visit to his home state, where he recalled that over two million Nigerians were killed during the 30-month civil war between 1967 and 1970.
He added, ''The way the Sahara is advancing, with Boko Haram, growing number of people and uncertainty over rainfall, in a land where we fought civil war leading to the death of about two million, for someone to just say he will chase us out? So where do we go?''
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