The Igbos And Major Tribes In Nigeria
Their confusion, infusion and frustration, arising from pride and over estimation of themselves, has led Igbo from the South East to a series of saboteur maniac syndromes.
Igbos broadly divided other Nigerians into three broad categories: those they hate, those they deride and those they fear. Those they hate are the Yorubas whom they call traitors, tribalists and cowards. Yet, no race in Nigeria has been more tribal than the lgbos. There are historical facts to prove this.
If something is ten and Igbos are not allowed to take 15, so that the rest of us can share minus 5, lgbos will cry marginalization and label the rest us tribalists. However there is no race in this country that has been more accommodating of the lgbos than the Yorubas. There is no single Igbo leader that did not grow up in the South West or is a beneficiary of Yoruba largesse.
Late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe went to CMS Gramma School; Adolphus wabara went to Ahmadiyya College; Ken Nnamani went to Loya College, Ibadan, Ojukwu and Ekwueme went to King’s College; Okpara went to Yaba Tech while Phillip Emegwali went to Aquinas College, Akure. Even my brother, Anadu went to Imade College, Owo, etc. All major Igbo politicians cut their political teeth in the West. Their major religious leaders cannot thrive outside the West. Pastor Muoka, Pastor Ezekiel of Four Square and Okonkwo of Trem are examples.
I remember that after the civil war, Igbos who came back to Ile Ife were allowed tuition free while the Yorubas in Nsuka were rusticated. Example is Pastor Adeboye. Yet lgbos reserve their greatest hatred for the Yorubas for reasons being that the Yorubas refused to be dominated by the lgbos to confront the North.
As to the label of cowardice, had there been any war between the Yorubas and the lgbos in which the lgbos defeated the Yorubas?
In the whole ancestral history of Ndigbo, which war has the forefathers or great forefathers fought? Any empire in their history? Yet the Yorubas have worsted the lgbos four times in the political history of Nigeria.
As to the label of treachery, had there been any agreement the Yorubas signed with the lgbos and they reneged? The answer is no. Yet the Yorubas have records of Igbo treachery on the two occasions they formed alliance with them.
In 1964 to fight the federal election, the Yorubas formed an Alliance called UPGA with the Igbos to be led by Okpara, because major the Yoruba leaders were in jail. There was an agreement that the election must be boycotted. The Igbos sabotaged it, went and contested election while the West kept to the agreement.
In 1979, the West went into alliance with the lgbos and formed PPA – Progressives People Alliance. Again Igbo sabotaged it so that they can produce Speaker of the House of Representatives. Who then is traitor?
The second category is the Eastern minorities made up of present Rivers, Akwa lbom, Cross Rivers and Bayelsa.
The Igbos see them as subhuman with tidal brain. Until the creation of Rivers State by Gowon, no Ogoni man can sleep on the hospital bed in Bori General Hospital. As at 1977, only Uyo, PHC and Calabar had electricity. They were so underdeveloped by their Igbo overseers that you will think that you were in the Congo jungle.
Until Diette Spiff, there was no Ikwere named Street in Port Harcourt. To show how deep the derision is, the present Biafran agitatators changed the name of Ribisi in Port Harcourt to Igwocha as if the Ikweres do not exist.
The third category are the Hausa Fulani. The igbos pretend to hate the Fulanis but the truth is that the Igbo man is subservient to them. Ignore the noise.
There are historical facts to justify this. Zik served under Balewa, Ekwueme served under Shagari and Ekweremadu zoned the PDP presidency to the North because he wants to be the Vice President to a Northerner.
After the civil war and Ojukwu was granted amnesty for his rebellion against constituted authority, he returned to Nigeria and joined the Hausa fulani party, (NPN): those he accused of genocide against his Igbo people.
It is Igbo tragedy that they hate and deride those who grow and sustain them while they cringe to those (the Hausas) who kicked them like balls.
Igbos are the only race in Nigeria that celebrate failure.
In 1982, the Igbos celebrated the defeat of Biafra by welcoming Ojukwu with fanfare on his return from asylum, haven been granted amnesty by the Igbo overlords- the Hausa Fulani. He reveled in the fanfare and promptly married FFK left over- forgetting about over three million lgbos that died in the war and with many of them languishing at Ojiri River Camp.
The second celebration is the release of Nnamdi Kanu with the most humiliating bail conditions ever granted an accused in the annals of Nigerian justice system.
A bail conditions targeted at the entire Igbo race and granted by an Hausa Fulani judge. I could not believe that with all the noise, such bail conditions will be signed. But he signed and in his eagerness to leave Kuje, he abandoned his two conspirators in Kuje.
The bail conditions wiped out the identity of the Igbos and Eweremadu was made the enforcer of the conditions. FFK is a polemist like Femi Aribisala.
They have the capacity to argue both sides of the same point. The Igbos regard him as their hero just like Ayo fayose, the Eze gburugburu the second.
I hope very soon the Igbo will not start blaming fayose as they blamed Awo for everything that went wrong with their prosecution of the Biafran war. [myad]
The North Shows Leadership…..
When Terrorist Nnamdi Kanu set up a pirate radio station in April 2015, and started insulting President Buhari and northerners, calling them all manner of unprintable names, no state governor from the Southeast called for the arrest of the cantankerous rabble rouser, Instead, as it later turned out, Nnamdi Kanu was just a front being used by Igbo politicians to intimidate, blackmail and subvert the President Buhari administration!
When IPOB grew and became a platform on which every mentally deranged Igbo youth stood to insult the person of PMB and his supporters, we have not seen nor heard any Southeast governor or prominent leader call for caution!
We have heard and seen from certain thugs, militants or terrorists from the South/South and Southeast worst statements of threats and insults against “parasites”, usually a euphemism for northerners. But while all those threats and insults lasted, never have we heard or seen any governor from down that side rebuking or ordering the arrest of those miscreants!
We have seen how the Southeast hired and commissioned a morally bankrupt hate merchant like Femi Fani-Kayode to be spewing hatred and insults on daily basis against President Buhari and northerners, to the point that an Igbo newspaper, DAILY SUN, gave him a column where he wrote hate-filled articles against PMB and the north, yet not once have we seen or heard any Southeast governor or prominent politician from that region condemn Fani-Kayode or even call for his arrest!
As a matter of fact, northern Nigeria has suffered incalculable insults, denigrations, and all manner of mischief from all such hate mongers since 1966 up to the conversion of Boko Haram to “Boko Haram”, and yet there seems to be no letup on the undeserved attacks and insults against the north and its leaders. What you need to be a “hero” in some quarters is to demonstrate that you are an imp like Femi Fani-Kayode, Ayo Fayose, and Nnamdi Kanu with undying thirst to fan hatred and mischief against PMB, and this visceral hatred against PMB by these sons of Lucifer is simply based on where he comes from, and we all know where their largest fan base is!
In spite of all that, it is condemnable that the Northern Youth Coalition chose to toe the path of IPOB, Femi Fani-Kayode, Ayo Fayose and all the ragtag groups that speak for Terrorist Nnamdi Kanu by calling on the Igbo to leave the north within three months. It is understandable, anyway, the anger and frustration a group of people may feel when they are the subject of hatred and ridicule by people with overrated self importance, but in times like this, it is always expedient to keep a cool head and show leadership in just the same way Governor Nasir el-Rufai showed how venerable monger power he was, by asking that those northern youths who asked that the Igbo leave the north be arrested!
However, patriotism in a diverse, multi-ethnic, and multinational country like Nigeria should not, and cannot be a one way traffic. As much as it is wrong for northern youths to ask for the departure of any ethnic group from the south from the north, it is equally much wrong for any group from the south to claim monopoly of sectional bigotry. I have seen hypocrites celebrating their full scale hypocrisy by condemning what those northern youths coalition said whereas they are well known as ardent supporters of IPOB and their allied groups. Tit for tat ain’t good but not everybody can endure persistent, unrelenting insults and regional blackmail.
El-Rufai has shown that in the midst of needless provocations, and dearth of leadership among the provocateurs, there is no leadership in the northern part of the country. And this is the same el-Rufai every moron that adorns themselves with IPOB flags love to label as Hell-Rufai on social media. [myad]