Controversial former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode in a trending video has revealed the conversation between him and President Muhammadu Buhari in 2013 where Buhari narrated why he does not trust the Igbo.
Fani-Kayode stated that Buhari told him that Igbo people could not be trusted because of the killings of Northern political and military officers in the first military coup which occurred on 15th January 1966.
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Mimicking Buhari’s manner of speaking, FFK says Buhari told him: “They killed our leaders. And we can never forget it. It is a cultural problem. You can’t trust them.”
FFK revealed the conversation to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
The video has now been uploaded by Reno Omokri, an aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Curiously, Buhari before then had picked two Igbo candidates as running mates in two presidential bids, before winning the election in 2015, with a Yoruba, Southwest candidate, Yemi Osinbajo.
In 2003, he ran with former senate president Chuba Okadigbo.
In 2007, he ran with another Igbo candidate, Chief Ume Ezeoke, a second Republic speaker of the House of Representatives.
However, the pairings did not yield votes in the Southeast states.
In 2011, Buhari picked Pastor Tunde Bakare. The ticket also failed.
This revelation is resurfacing at a time the people of the southeastern extraction who are mostly are clamouring for the presidency in 2023 having failed to produce a Head of state or president since the country’s first military head of state, Johnson Thomas Aguiyi Ironsi was murdered in the reprisal coup that happened in July of 1966 after the January coup. Buhari believes other Nigerians have lots of reservations about the Igbo people for the first bloody coup.
The president has at several intervals dispelled those allegations saying he loves Igbo people contrary to popular insinuations in some quarters.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK