Igbos will lose more if Nigeria breaks up - Rochas Okorocha

Former Imo State Governor and Senator Representing Imo West District, Rochas Okorocha, has urged Igbos to desist from the call for secession.

According to him, any attempt to break the country will cause doom for the Igbo people.

A proscribed group in the Southern region of Nigeria called the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern Security Network have been at the forefront of a secession.

The Yorubas also called for the creation of the Oduduwa Republic thereby increasing the calls for secession in the country.

Okorocha reacting to the call for secession has warned that the Igbos would be the worst hit if Nigeria breaks up.

He said that the South-East should push towards fixing the country and not its disintegration.

“It is only an Igbo man that goes to a place and remains put in that place, buys a land and builds a house for his family without feeling insecure. The Igbos will lose more if Nigeria divides." Okorocha said to some women groups in Abuja over the weekend.

“Most Nigerian leaders who were successful had one thing or the other to do with the Igbos. It is either they married Igbo women or had some links with them. I can call names like former President, (Olusegun) Obasanjo; former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Buba Marwa, just to name a few”.