WHY ARE THE IGBO PARANOID?

written by Our Reporter December 7, 2020

By Tochukwu Ezukanma

A female preacher on “Morning Cry” was killed by an unknown
assailant in Abuja. The murdered early morning preacher was a Yoruba,
and most likely, her assailant is a northern Moslem. Interestingly, in
all the hoopla spawned by the murder of this devout Christian lady by an
obvious fanatical northern Nigerian Moslem, nobody brought up the issue
of tribe. It was considered a crime motivated by religious bigotry.

In 2003, Mohammadu Buhari ran for the presidency, and lost. He went to
court to contest his defeat. He was ridiculed by the court process. In
2007, he ran again for the same office, and again, lost. Supported by
the leadership of his political party, All Nigerian Peoples Party
(ANPP), he went to court to challenge the presidential election results.
Disappointingly, as he contested his electoral defeat in court, the
chairman of the party, Ume Ezeoke, and the party leadership that
encouraged his going to court, pulled the rug from under his feet; and
joined the People Democratic Party (PDP) dominated government of
national unity of President Musa Yar’Adua.

Buhari left the ANPP, formed a new political party, Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC), and then, again, ran for the presidency; and,
for the third time, lost. Devastated by his third electoral defeat, he
lost his cool, and literally wept in public. Instructively, throughout
his electoral defeats, travails and betrayals, and grief and tears, he
never insinuated that he was being hated and victimized because of his
tribe. It was all about the struggle for power, and not about any
tribal-inspired conspiracy against his ever being a president.

Had the female preacher, killed in Abuja, been Igbo, the Igbo would have
seen it strictly through our paranoiac prism, misconstrued the crime and
touted her death as another evidence of the widespread hatred for the
Igbo in Nigeria, and a powerful testament to the lingering vestiges of
an earlier conspiracy by the rest of Nigerians to exterminate the Igbo.
Had Buhari been Igbo, the Igbo would have believed that his repeated
failure to win the presidential election, and his party’s betrayal of
his trust following the 2007 presidential election were palpable
confirmations of a sordid conspiracy against an Igbo ever being the
president of Nigeria.

In Zaria, the Shiite Moslems, on a religious procession, temporarily
refused the passage of the Army Chief of Staff’s motorcade through
their neighborhood. Piqued by the inconvenience and attendant insult,
the Nigerian army killed about one thousand Shiite Moslems and burnt
down many of their houses. In Odi, in retaliation to the killing of
twelve policemen, the Nigerian army killed about three hundred persons,
and literally, razed the whole village. Those retaliatory attacks were
barbaric, ghoulish, and horrifyingly, reminiscent of Nazi reprisal
killings in Axis-occupied Europe. The people of Zaria are Hausa/Fulani
and the people of Odi are Ijaws. The killings were heavy-handed and
atrocious, but instructively, indifferent to tribe.

Therefore, as the army struck at members of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) at Emene and Oyigbo, it was not in implacable hate for the
Igbo and desire to wipe out the Igbo race, but in reprisal to
provocations. But, with our perception of every issue blurred by the
feeling that we are universally hatred in Nigeria, and invariably,
encircled by enemies hell-bent on our destruction, many Igbo believe
that the killings at Emene and Oyigbo by the Nigerian army were not mere
reprisal attacks, as in Zaria and Odi, but murderous vents to
deep-rooted hatred for Ndigbo, and deliberate, methodical steps in
implementing an extant plan to exterminate the Igbo.

To safeguard the peace of our communities and lives of our youths, we
must discourage the provocation of the army and other security agents
in Igbo land. This can be done by prevailing on the IPOB leader, Nnamdi
Kanu, to stop deceiving Igbo youths and egging them on to their earlier
deaths. Paradoxically, many Igbo consider Nnamdi Kanu – that vulgar
parvenu that lies inexhaustibly – a Messiah; and believe that his
reckless and irresponsible utterances that incite Igbo youths to stone
his political opponents to death and attack law enforcements agents are
not hateful and unlawful, but actually, peaceful and perceptive. To
them, to overpower and abduct State Secret Service (SSS) officers in
Emene, and kill three policemen and six soldiers in Oyigbo by members of
IPOB were not condemnable and comeuppance, but justifiable and
laudable.

In our self-deceit, we want to believe that we have done no wrong and
offended no one, but have been innocent victims of the evil machinations
of a country that is marginalizing, enslaving and exterminating them. We
delight in lying to ourselves because we remain emotionally yoked to the
falsehood of the Biafran propaganda. Biafra was founded on falsehood,
and the lies of the Biafran propaganda are deeply embedded in our minds;
they retain a mesmeric grip on our psyche. They pander to our self-pity
and blame game, and provide us scapegoats for our repeated political
blunders. They justify our paranoia: fear and suspicion of other
Nigerians; anger and bitterness against Nigeria; and agitation for
Biafra. Although Biafranism is the most dangerous idea that ever made an
inroad into the Igbo mind, and has visited us with our worst nightmares
and greatest calamities, we continue to cling to it.

But then, the masses can barely think, and consequently, are susceptible
to political manipulation. According to the ancient Greek philosopher,
Protagoras, “the people have no understanding, and only believe what
their leaders are pleased to tell them”. It is the people’s
inability to think, lack of understanding and muddled credulity that
explain why the Igbo did not hold Ojukwu accountable for his suicide
mission, Biafra, and its decimation of Ndigbo. It killed hundreds of
thousands in the glory of our youth and starved more than one million
hapless civilians to death. It is for the same reasons that we consider
Ojukwu a hero, when, in essence, he was a despicable perfidious
opportunist that led his people into trouble, abandon them and ran away;
and believed that the struggle for his “self-determination” was
worth nearly two million Igbo lives but not his own life.

It is also the same inherent limitations of the people that make it
impossible for many Igbo to see Nnamdi Kanu for what he really is and
the danger his neo-Biafranism portends for Ndigbo. Nnamdi Kanu is a
con-artist building his financial empire at the detriment of the Igbo,
and his Biafran lunacy may spell the doom of the Igbo in Nigeria.




http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/uncategorized/why-are-the-igbo-paranoid/

paxx:
For you to make the arguement that Fulanese are being discriminated against is so stupid.

Many West African Leaders are Fulanese including President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari; the President of Senegal, Macky Sall; the President of Gambia, Adama Barrow;the President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embalo; the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh; and the Prime Minister of Mali, Boubou Cisse.

I didn't even know Fulanese was a tribe in nigeria. I always thought it was Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. SMH

Mokason288:
It takes a brave person/ people to seek happiness and independence

Igbos are not cowards and they are not afraid to stand on their own

All we are saying is that the Northern’s are too smart and intelligent we don’t want to share
the same country with you guys

Is that too difficult to ask ?

okigbojihad:

u want to just justify the re-awakening of ndigbo to the atrocities committed against them since the inception of nigeria? of course, we have every reason to be paranoid and wary of our neighbors.

Igbos were killed in the north in 1945, 1950. To date, Nigeria is yet to give an explanation on why the Igbos were killed in the early 20th century in the north. from all the events that have unfolded and sir ahmadu Bello's hate speech on Igbo domination one could deduce it was a bigoted innate hate towards the Igbo nation no one can say contrary to that.


even after the civil war Igbos were still targeted and haunted in the north, not until Onitsha and Aba had to put a stop to their madness by sending thousands of the head-slammers to meet their 72 circumcised virgins in the east in 2006.

in 2015 during the presidential election Igbos were being threatened by the northerners because of GEJ who was an Ijaw man, just imagine a scenario if GEJ had annulled that election in 2015 who would have been the target? Igbos of course even the tiv's were threatening to kill the Igbos.

I'm not surprised by the stupid write up too many abobakus have taken the path of foolishness.

nku5:
Tinubu will never be president that's all

plaindealer:
Fast forward, ipob terrorists attacked and looted onion trucks from the North, not they are playing the victim and paranoia that denying them onion shipments from the north because the government is getting ready to attack them.

This is igbo paranoia.

afube:




your post is undiluted drivel...............the status of Ndigbo by January 1st, 2022 will shock the world, the battle against oppression by Fulanis has already been won so crawl back to your lair and shut it, please.

Millimann:
An Igbo businessman was murdered in Ibadan just last week. Nobody said he was killed because he is Igbo. We all agreed it was business gone wrong. You intentionally omitted that one.

Emerie22:
What will these Jihadists gain for all these killings

Southerners are their Targets.

Fulanis are terrorists

https://www.nairaland.com/6579011/businessman-linus-owuamanam-murdered-ibadan/1

Mokason288:
It takes a brave person/ people to seek happiness and independence

Igbos are not cowards and they are not afraid to stand on their own

All we are saying is that the Northern’s are too smart and intelligent we don’t want to share
the same country with you guys

Is that too difficult to ask ?

Here is my question: do Igbos go to a special school where they teach them to be stupid or are they born stupid?

I ask this question because I notice that at Nigerian Internet forums, many Igbo members write the most stupid things and no amount of efforts to redirect them makes them to budge. For example, practically everything they write is designed to humiliate other Nigerians.

For some reason these verbally abusive Igbos do not seem to understand that if you humiliate a human being or group of human beings you inflict narcissistic injury to them and that human beings do kill to assuage their injured pride and vanity.

Common sense tells us to respect our neighbors for if they decide to they can kill us. Igbos do not seem to accept common sense and instead, like people operating outside reality, that is, deluded persons, verbally abuse their neighbors, right, left and center, making them angry at Igbos and disposing some of them to attack and kill Igbos (or marginalize them from Nigerian politics).

Because of their constant denigration of Nigerians, Nigerians shut Igbos out of position of power in Nigeria. Igbos then see themselves as victims and complain about it. They naively think that the rest of the world is going to rescue them from their self-caused untenable position.

No other country is willing to bring about Biafra; the sooner Igbos accept this reality and work to restructure Nigeria and bring about good governance in Nigeria the better they are served.


https://www.igbounioncanada.com/opinions/do-igbos-go-to-a-school-where-they-teach-them-to-be-stupid-or-are-they-born-stupid.html

plaindealer:



You won the battle by attacking their onion trucks and stealing their onion.

Paranoid Comedian..

Mokason288:
It takes a brave person/ people to seek happiness and independence

Igbos are not cowards and they are not afraid to stand on their own

All we are saying is that the Northern’s are too smart and intelligent we don’t want to share
the same country with you guys

Is that too difficult to ask ?

plaindealer:



The same people that can not stand on their own in their states, towns and villages?

If you really can stand on your own, why do generations after generations migrate to the SW and the North for your daily bread? Why not sit in your states and stand on your own?

If you really are not a coward and you have all it takes to stand on your own, they return to your towns and villages to stand on your own, stop going to the SW and the North to seek your daily bread from cowards.

Is it not obvious to you who the cowards really are?

Your survival depends on the generosity, hospitality and humility of other nigerians.

You people are too delusional for your own good.

Skyfornia:
Wasted my time reading that piece of sh!t...

I wonder why BIAFRA is giving everybody sleepless nights even when majority of you claim Igbos doesn't matter. Why would you despise someone and still want to be yoked with the same person?

Igbos don't want you...na by force!??

StaffofOrayan:
Mehn see all the massacre committed by Nigeria on its own damn citizens!
And then in the midst of all the bloodshed, we expect to develop as a nation?

plaindealer:



You won the battle by attacking their onion trucks and stealing their onion.

Paranoid Comedian..

IDeyNL:


Although the attack on the onions truck was unfortunate. But where were you when Yoruba youths attacked tomatoes truck I'm south west? Of course you hid

Unlike yorubas who started making noise everywhere when there was a boycott of tomatoes in south west, the Igbos never reacted to the threat of boycott of onions in south east. We no dey hungry.

Tinubu will never become president.

IDeyNL:


Although the attack on the onions truck was unfortunate. But where were you when Yoruba youths attacked tomatoes truck I'm south west? Of course you hid

Unlike yorubas who started making noise everywhere when there was a boycott of tomatoes in south west, the Igbos never reacted to the threat of boycott of onions in south east. We no dey hungry.

Tinubu will never become president.

JohnSin97:


False.....less than 24hours the news the ban on onions was effected your Ohanieze has already started bitching marginalization....as usual http://saharareporters.com/2021/06/03/blockage-onions-south-east-part-conspiracy-attack-igbos%E2%80%94-ohanaeze-ndigbo

Plus the attacks on food trucks during the EndSARS saga wasn't limited to the south west alone, there are videos of easterners attacking food tracks and stealing goats that arrived from the north.