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May 30th is not only about the Igbo people. It incorporates other tribes like the Philip Effiongs, Efik, and Ibibio people. It includes those Biafra soldiers from Urohbo, Ijaw, Ogoni, etc who paid with their blood fïghting for that w@r of survival. It was a time when the world came against the Biafrans. We won’t let a group of retired Nigerian politicians being sponsored by current politicians to downplay it.

 This is the truth of the matter: no matter how well a subnational governor performs, the operating framework handicaps him. It’s like a boxer fighting with one hand behind his back. In other words, there’s a debilitating limit to what a governor can achieve. For instance, governors of states like Benue, Plateau and Zamfara have discovered that the title of Chief Security Officer is more in humour than in reality. To drive meaningful development, subnational governors need full operational command of internal security forces in their states, similar to their counterparts in countries like the USA, Australia, Brazil and Canada.