A brilliant Igbo boy, born and bred in Lagos, wrote this piece before
the governorship in Nigeria; i decided not to publish this beautiful article
then so that i don’t provoke the already charged atmosphere...having said that,
Kindly read the article and make a sincere comments. Enjoy it:
‘’ I think we the
igbo's have got a real big problem, we are ranting here and there about the
recent threat credited to the Oba of lagos, it seems we haven't learnt any lesson yet. Our igbo
leaders have sold out that region to the PDP just because of greed and sending
the region to political extinction. Now let us reason together, the Oba of
Lagos is not a politician and secondly he never supported the candidacy of
Buhari, which he made it open when Goodluck visited him before the March 28
poll, he went to the extent of raining insults on former president OBJ, now he
is coming out to create another confusion by his comment, have we sat down to
ask ourselves maybe he might be working for the PDP? Because they know the igbo
factor in the lagos election, and igbo man can be use to do dirty work, once
you grease the palm of an Igbo man, he can sell his dignity.
Why are we not seeing the big
picture here? Why do we always throw away our golden opportunities to develop
the igbo people? Why do we make ourselves to be seen as a betrayer? Lagos under
the leadership of Tinubu and Fashola has recognized the Igbo in lagos and have
been generous to the igbo even to the extent of appointing igbo's into their
administration and allocating juicy positions, it only in Lagos that an Igbo
man has been appointed commissioner for budget and planning, it only in Lagos
that igbo has been elected local government chairman, other non Igbo states has
never done that, yet we allow ourselves to be used against an administration
that has been so generous to us.
I think we should be ashamed of
ourselves because we have a very big issue, during the fourth republic, the
Igbo had the senate president and we killed ourselves, we masterminded the
impeachment of our fellow brother because of position, it is only the igbo turn
that we had 3 senate president in four years, we are the same people who witch
hunt down our own blood brothers because of greed, Buhari floated CPC and won
some states in the north and today all those governors are still with him up to
date, tinubu created ACN and won all 4 states in the west and today they are
still with him, Orji Uzo Kalu formed PPA, won abia and Imo, but what happened?
They went back to that same PDP that sent them out. You are destroying
yourselves, making yourselves inferior to other region, becoming a follower
because you have refuse to have a leader as a result of lack of trust in each other,
we know Buhari, Babagida, Atiku etc as current leader in the north, we know
Tinubu, obasanjo, in the south west, we know Edwin Clark, Anenih, in the south
south, who is our own leader in the south east? Ojukwu, who risk his career,
life and family for the Igbo nation created APGA and yet he cannot lay claim to
the whole of igbo state, this is a shame on us and the worst of it is that,
they have sold out that legacy after his demise, former governor Peter Obi is a
betrayer, he dumped a platform that gave him 8 years in office, and became a
follower.
I can still align with rochas, he
collapsed his APGA in forming APC, he can be adjudged as a founding member of
that party unlike Peter Obi who joined an already existing platform, Theodore
Orji can be described as the worst governor in the southeast yet he has the
mandate to represent in the senate, Stella oduah has corruption charges hanging
on her neck yet she got an heroic welcome in her state and was given the
mandate to senate, we openly celebrate criminality and yet we want to be
accorded respect, in my own view I think the Oba was even kind, he should have
said igbos will be delivered to shekau to deal with them or even put them in a
container and bombed. What were you thinking? You think just as you have
deprived yourselves an association with the federal government, so they will
allow you to make their state loose same too, no way! They want development,
lagos has recorded so much progress in the last 16 years without much federal
empowerment, have you though how much more progress it will have with the
federal might? I pity you and your investments in Lagos.
You said you want independent. I laugh, because have always asked where
are the leaders that will govern us? Nwazurike formed MASSOB, today you said
Jonathan has bought him over, hundreds of MASSOB members are in jail today,
they have been denied bail but non of the Niger delta militant were jailed
rather the collect billions of naira and they are sent abroad, yet you voted
and cast ur support on Jonathan, I was told that it was the south south that
betrayed Ojukwu during the war and he lost, thousands of Igbo died, yet you all
shout GEJ till 2019, well thank God it didn't come through, because we are
daft, he changed his name to Ebele Azikwe and we followed and say he is our
brother. APC has come out to tell you to ignore the Oba, Tinubu has come out to
do same, he went ahead to asked if the government have not been paying the
school fees of igbo children in public schools, 4 igbo children has been given
opportunity to become governor in a day in Lagos thru the spelling bee contest,
they have enjoyed scholarship to study abroad in Lagos, yet we still shout
everyday that the Oba threatened, why didn't ur so called Eze's protest at the
meeting? The clapped for him because they are bunch of cowards. Well for me, an
Igbo boy, born and breed in Lagos, I am appreciative of that state and will
support it. Eko o ni baje....as written by Agnus Dei
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