Nnamdi Kanu is unfortunately not an intelligent person. Otherwise he would know that you do not begin an agitation for secession by call to arms. It has to, and must start with the dissemination of the underlying ideology foundational to your struggle. So many people queueing behind this man today do not know what they are dying for. They think the word "Biafra" means freedom or some kind of El-dorado!.

Hitler as gifted as he was with oratory, still took the pains to put his thoughts down in written form Called the "Mein Kampf". This volume was bible for every German and they read it's pages religiously and fully understood why they had to go to war with the whole world and exterminate the Jews and other "inferior races". It was about Aryan superiority. That was the objective.

Chairman Mao Tse- Tung had his red book, containing his communist manifestos. He also wrote, "On Contradiction", "On Practice" and over a dozen other deep ideological books to guide the Chinese revolution. Lenin and Stalin also had the writings of Karl Marx to guide the Russian revolution.

Ojukwu himself understood this and was smart enough to put � down the Ahiara Declaration. This was the document that guided Ojukwu's secessionist struggle in those days. Everyone in the East who could, read it. The revolutionary document clearly set out the problems of the Igbo's faced in the Nigerian Polity and why arm conflict and secession was necessary to, and most importantly the structure of the Biafra Republic.

This sort of foundational documents not only educates and arms your followers, but also assist other people home and abroad to be properly informed in order to sympathize with your cause or not.

Nnamdi Kanu clearly has no ideological pillars supporting his present agitation. And I daresay that he was no prepared for, nor did he envisage the uproar and immense popularity that followed his arrest and detention. The larger-than-life dimension of this entire conflict has been accidentally in my view, unwittingly fed by the many missteps of the Buhari administration in dealing with it.

Nnamdi Kanu has asked for our support in His quest for "Biafra". But I will first want to know, without discrediting his motives, what I've been asked to die for exactly.

Which "Biafra" are we dying for in 2017 exactly? The one Ojukwu himself, before he died said was a dead ideology? Or the one Nnamdi Azikiwe betrayed after quickly switching allegiance to support "One Nigeria" during the civil war? If Zik did not think Biafra was worth his life, and this was when the injury to the Igbos was still very fresh, if Ojukwu refused to die for the cause and entered the next available flight out of Nigeria, leaving the pitiful Philip Effiong an Akwa Ibom man to surrender and hand over to Federal Forces. Then what are you inciting people to die for in 2017, when Igbos are fairing far better than several other ethnic groups in Nigeria. Infact does it surprise you that Ojukwu was buried in Nigerian colours, rather than Biafra's?

Lest we forget, in the world over, no group of secessionists have been reintegrated into society after failing in their secessionist objective, as fast as the Igbos were reintegrated into the Nigerian society. The first thing Ojukwu himself did when he returned to Nigeria in 1982 was to contest for the senate, despite his people's protests that he should stay out of "Nigeria's" politics. And contest he did, though he lost to his Igbo brother Jim Nwobodo. Meanwhile as at 1979-1983 the Vice president of Nigeria was Ekwueme, an Igbo man. And this was barely 10 years after the civil war!!

Through out the administration of both Babangida and Abacha , the Igbos were favoured even more than the Yoruba's who considered themselves to be the foremost elites in Nigeria, as so many such as Arthur Nzeribe, Arthur Eze and Iwuanyawun et all became billionaires through insidious patronage of military depots who daily oppressed ordinary Nigerians. Nobody remembered Biafra when counting the money. Even today, the Deputy Senate President of Nigeria is an Igbo man. All through Obasanjo's tenure, the Senate Presidency was exclusive to the Igbos. At some point in GEJ's administration, the entire economic policies of the country were controlled by Igbos, at the same time, the Chief of Defense Staff was also Igbo. I mean, the period we are talking about here is as recent as 2015!!!! What marginalization!!!.

Meanwhile we have the Tivs, the Jukuns, the Ibibios and hundreds of other tribes who have never been allowed to rise to such elevated offices, yet the heavens have not fallen.

So exactly how bad has the Igbos been marginalized, that we must all die at the snap of Nnamdi Kanu's fingers, beyond the many injustices we collectively face and endure in Nigeria on a daily basis? And why is secession the ONLY option?

You see Buhari has a huge blame in what is playing out today, and I blame him for the most part. If he hadn't come up with that hideous octopus arithmetic of 95% against 5%, to Balkanize the country even further along ethnic lines, if he had not undertook those lopsided appointments that gave credence to all the tribal instigations of the likes of Ena Ofugara and co on social media after the elections that he was a tribal bigot, if he was just large-hearted, forgiving and matured enough to accommodate the 5% at the earliest stage and understand that elections were over, and he was now not the President of APC or Northern Nigeria but Nigeria as a whole, perhaps this unnecessary tension and heating of the polity would have been avoided.

In any event who was Nnamdi Kanu and what was "Biafra" before 2015?

#My Opinion #
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