President Tinubu Agreed to Biafra Creation? Fact Emerges

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journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of experience covering governance and public journalism.

Several posts on the popular social networking service,

, claim that the

administration has agreed to allow the south-eastern states in Nigeria to secede.

emerged amid ceaseless agitation by some Nigerians - home and abroad - for a new nation to be created. The planned country has been christened 'Biafra'.

One of the

:

“Tinubu asks Biafra to go for peace to reign: The heat of Biafra hits presidency so hard that as a matter of urgency speaks on Biafra freedom.”

It includes a screenshot of an article with the logo of a Nigerian newspaper, The Punch, attributing the claim to the media platform.

The screenshot's caption reads:

“Presidency speaks on Biafra, we can’t give out south-south. If the 5 south-eastern states want to go, they are free.”

But is this claim true? A fact-checking platform,

Check,

it.

Following its findings, the platform stated that such a development would have made local and international headlines if it were true.

It said:

"But we found no report of it."

It ruled that there is no evidence that the government has agreed to allow the south-eastern states to secede.

Earlier,

alady's search for family members of her late father, Philip Ugoji.

According to the lady, Philip fled

at 11 with his uncle during the Nigeria-Biafra civil war of 1967 to 1970.