Chief Bode George has said that the ongoing consultations by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is not enough to drown the drums of war beaten across the country.
Osinbajo had embark on consultations with stakeholders in the nation over threats of secession and quit notice given to Igbos by northern youths.
However, Bode George was a former National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said that the Federal Government must widen the scope of the consultations.
According to the PDP chieftain who spoke to the press in Lagos, in a speech captioned, “Enough of the drum beats of war,” “the current consultations that our government has embarked upon across the tribal divide is laudable and exemplary. But they should do more.
“They should widen the consultation efforts by inviting the formidable elders and statesmen who were active participants and managers of our Nation during the dark drama of our civil war.”
He said that there are persons scattered across different areas of the country that need to be consulted to douse the tension in the land.
“The chastening voices of General Yakubu Gowon, General Obasanjo, General T.Y. Danjuma, General Alani Akinrinade, General Alabi Isama, General IMB Haruna, General Babangida, General Abdulsalam, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Gov. Udenwa, Col. Iheanacho Rtd, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu and many others on both sides of the divide at that time,” he said, “will go a long way in tempering the flight of fancy of the intemperate agitators who have never heard a gunshot in anger.”
Bode George warned the youths to stop beating war drums as they are too young to know the sacrifices paid for the nation’s unity, adding that not country survives two civil wars.