In my own opinion, the enemy of Ndigbo is Ndigbo itself. I remember a time in this country when all the six ministers in Jonathan’s kitchen cabinet were all Igbos: Anyim Pius Anyim was SGF, Ngozi Okonjo Iwealla was in charge of finance; Emeka Wogu was in Labour and productivity; Berth Nnaji was in Power and Energy; Dieziani Madueke was the powerful minister. The six of them outside the Federal Executive Council would meet and decide what and what not to be discuss at the larger FEC.
Whatever they decided would eventually be d position of government.
In six years, this was the situation. Okiro and Onovo had d police under their control. Ihejirika and later Minimah controlled d Army. These powerful Igbos could do and undo. Nigeria was in their pockets.
Rather than care about d poor Igbo chaps scattered all over the country, they were busy diverting billions of naira into their accounts at home and abroad.
The 2nd Niger Bridge, they didn’t do. They shared the money.
The Lagos/Calabar rail lines passing through nine States, three of them in the South East, They were not bothered. They refused to pay the Chinese the Counterpart fund. They shared the money. Enugu/Onitsha, Aba/PH and other roads of economic importance to their fellow Igbos, they abandoned.
Who is to blame? Who is marginalizing the Igbo’s?
You had your chance, you bungled it. There was only one Yoruba minister worth mentioning at the time: Akinwunmi Adesina.
He was in Agric. His budget was less than 1% while Emeka Wogu in Labor had over 10% for his ministry; Anyim had unlimited access to d treasury for the benefit of himself and family members.
The poor Igbo guys meant nothing to him. If an Igbo becomes President tomorrow after Jonathan, will there be any difference? The Igbo man will marginalize his fellow Igbo people. [myad]
