Dr. Obinna Nwachukwu, Managing Director of Montage Africa Media, has linked the rise of Nnamdi Kanu and the renewed agitation for Biafra to unresolved issues that originally led to the Nigerian Civil War.
Speaking on Signature TV’s discussion programme, The Conference, Nwachukwu explained that the same grievances that pushed the Eastern Region into conflict more than five decades ago have remained largely unattended.
In his words, “If the FG had listened to them and addressed those issues, there wouldn’t have been Nnamdi Kanu.”
He said that the civil war was not just a historical event but a result of deep-seated injustice, inequality, and marginalization that were never truly resolved after the war ended in 1970. “The causes of that war were political exclusion, lack of fairness, and suppression of a people’s voice. Those same issues are what Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are talking about today,” Nwachukwu noted.
He argued that successive governments failed to implement post-war reconciliation policies in good faith, leaving many in the Southeast feeling alienated from the Nigerian project. “The policy of ‘No victor, no vanquished’ sounded good, but in practice, the Southeast was left behind in rebuilding and political participation,” he added.
According to him, if the government had sincerely addressed those historical injustices—through equitable development, inclusion in governance, and fair treatment—the agitation for Biafra would not have resurfaced.
Nwachukwu emphasized that Kanu’s emergence is symbolic of Nigeria’s failure to heal from its civil war scars. “He represents a generation that feels that nothing has changed since the 1960s. The system keeps repeating the same mistakes,” he said.
He therefore called on the federal government to revisit the root causes of national disunity and adopt a justice-based approach to governance. “We must learn from history,” he warned. “If we continue to ignore the very issues that caused the civil war, we will continue to breed new agitations and new Kanus.
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