Biafra: Nnamdi Azikwe's wife talks on Nigeria's separation

Spouse of first patriot, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Prof. Uche Azikiwe, on Monday required the solidarity of the nation out of appreciation for the recollections of the country's establishing.

She noticed that the late Azikiwe and his peers like late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello and others, would "hand over their graves" if the nation crumbled.

Talking at the Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo neighborhood government zone of Ebonyi State amid the foundation's second Convocation Lecture with the topic, 'National Reconciliation and the Role of Universities,' Mrs Azikwe said the establishing fathers yielded a considerable measure for the solidarity of the nation, thusly Nigeria must not deteriorate.

Mrs Azikiwe likewise called for compromise among different warring gatherings in the nation to guarantee the coveted peace.

Concurring her, "The nation ought not be permitted to break down amid our opportunity on the grounds that in the event that it does, my significant other and his counterparts would hand over their graves.

"These establishing fathers relinquished a considerable measure for us to be one regardless of their disparities, and this should make us to by and large discover answers for the issues debilitating to break down us.


"We should call upon God in tackling the issues and truly address issues of bad form, imbalance, among others which undermine our corporate presence as a substance.

"The country's political class ought to likewise be called to arrange on the grounds that we gave them the orders to lead us yet shockingly, they are not doing as such appropriately," she said.