Philgafauto:


My brother, i will like to hear your thoughts. This is an interactive thread meant to teach our igbo brothers how to operate in this Nigerian contraption.

Philgafauto:
This election period was painful and it is still painful even though i am not igbo. So i can imagine how you igbos feel in this period

I will list some facts below which i want every igbo to imbibe:

1. The Supreme Court will not dispense any justice for Peter Obi in the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.

2. Igbos should restrict pentecostal Churches in their land and embrace Orthodox christianity or Judaism.

3. Igbo leaders should plead with the violent and angry IPOB agitators to dial down the violence and exercise some patience to enable igbo intelligentsia to come with a development plan for the East.

4. Every igbo man or woman should know that they are hated by other Nigerians, but they should not go violent at this moment.

3. The igbos should study Jewish history and their journey into nationhood and the lessons learnt from available literature should be integrated into the school curriculum from primary school to tertiary level.

4. All igbos must love themselves because you are all you have got. Intra gbo love must be made compulsory.

5. As long as Igbos love Lagos, Abuja & other Nigerian cities more than igbo land, igbos will never be respected and will continue to be a 2nd class citizen in Nigeria.

6. An igbo will never be President of Nigeria.

7. Igbos must develop, inhabit and retain its best brains alaigbo(igboland).

8. Igbos must endure the pains of divestment from Nigeria and repatriation of their wealth back into igbolanand. Igbos must bear that pain, there is no alternative to the pain

9. Igbos should beg Simon Ekpa and his gang for a ceasefire. They need to be persuaded to allow peace to reign.

10. Igbos must, must, must invest in Agriculture like there is no tomorrow. You can study the Israeli model. After what happened to igbos during the civil war, i must confess that igbos are not serious not to have invested in growing their own food.

11. Igbos should beg Peter Obi to turn his gaze to igboland in order for him to be the moses of the igbos regarding good governance.

12. Igbos must sheathe their sword for now and invest in science and technology

13. Igbos should deemphasise the urge for quick money and concentrate on building a strong igbo land, even if it is your 5 States. Just develop that land.

14. Igbos should work with good igbo architects and town planners for the development of high rise buildings to conserve land.

15. I repeat, igbos must love themselves. It is essential.

16. The recorded messages of Nnamdi Kanu must be cleansed from the hate and violence and be disseminated to all igbos. That man is a great man.

17. Igbos should keep islam out of its society completely. That reiligion is a blood sucking cancer.

18. Igbos should try and use the ports in the South South for the meantime and work with the Tinubu Government. You must learn to stoop to conquer.

19. Igbos should descend on the directors of Igbo Nollywood to stop depicting igbo land as a village that needs to be abadoned by millions of igbos to survive.

20. I repeat, all igbos must love each other and channel all the hate for Nigeria into aggressive development of igboland.

This is a message from a yoruba man who loves you and wants to see you free someday.

Selah.

colonelwealth:





Ok.
If you truly made this post with good intentions to learn or educate then I will endulge you.


I know some of the points you raise were from the place of uninformed mindset and bigotry.

Furthermore, it is important to note that most times, other Nigerians and tribes in Nigeria fixate their attention on Igbos(Igbo this, Igbo that) 24hrs a day, everyone wants to have a say in Igbo affairs, advice them, chastise them, mock them, admonish them, criticize them but not themselves...............in as much as it is not there place to dictate to the Igbos on how to leave however the Igbos will always be open to make improvements while others pretend their house is in order only later to turn around to blame Igbos for their woes when they themselves fail and this same Igbos succeed in areas they have improved themselves.
(People should tone down their obsession with Igbo affairs in this country)



Corrections....
*Whoever told you guys that an Igbo man will never become president of Nigeria is delusional and just wants to decive himself to feel happy.....an Igbo person will rule Nigeria again and many times over as far as the nation remains one and no body can ever stop it when the time arrives no matter the schemes.
*Whoever told you guys are not united is self decieption....Igbos have shown on steady and thru many occasions that love themselves more than most tribes in Nigeria.
*Whoever told you guys that others hate Igbos, can't trust or work with them is a mischievous lies that has been long busted and will continue to be busted.....infact the opposite is the reality, Igbos are well loved&accepted... nobody hates them&they know it however they equally know those who do not receive them with openness.
*Whoever told you guys that Igbos need validation from others to succeed then doesn't understand them....Igbos are wired to operate with little validation nor considerable opposition from others and still succed(check throughout Igbo history)
*Whoever told you guys that Igbos can not defend themselves against any circumstances still do not know Igbos and thinks so at his own folly....Igbos are well capable to defend themselves anywhere; in their land, in a foreign land of habitation (check their anticidence) when push comes to shove.
* Whoever told you guys that Igbos economic future is bleak or depends on other people or regions or policies then has not still understood them....Igbos may face challenges but will always find ways to prevail. their region is as economically bright as any other nation of the world and loaded with huge untaped potentials.
*Whoever told you that Igbos must migrate other regions to succeed or can't do without migration is myopic in understanding...Igbos have shown to do so well in their land, as well as outside in foreign lands.... opportunities abound in Igboland for those who see it&wish to utilize it.......infact anytime Igbos decides to migrate back in droves with or without their investments in other parts of Nigeria, that is the time Nigeria's existence as a nation will be in serious Jeopardy.
*Whoever keeps telling you guys that Igbos don't intertain foreigners in their region is also deluded and unintelligent, check the Igbo society and see the many success stories of prosperous and assimilated foreigners and non-Igbod there and those by their virtue of interaction in every aspects.
*Finally, Igbos don't seek to drag anywhere with anybody or they need to equal opportunities in their host Territories.
*Note Igbos are not boastful or arrogant, if you understand them, you will know that they only want to asert themselves most times in things they believe in and their confidence in their capabilities in areas of their strength&know how(which unfortunately some people mistake for arrogance).
Brothers, make no mistake.......Igbophobia is very much real in Nigeria and Igbos are aware of these and make giant strides out of them to the amazement, applause, disappointment and envy of different people.



Having established these facts, let's me inform you that Igbos that you think today are disadvantaged are only in a temporary situation because of leadership failures of the past..... however, watch them closely and you will realize that all that has been changing rapidly and they are getting their acts together.

Igbos have instituted viable plans and motions to prevail and the gradual changes needed are taking place across board.(business, health, infrastructure, leadership, enterprenuership, education, security, politics&diplomacy, science& technology, culture and so many sectors).


The biggest bane the Igbo society has had in the recent past had been good leadership but that they correcting already.

Igbos are massively beginning to think home and are realizing the need to apply their weight in the land as their leaders and government are beginning to encourage that and their people response well alike.
So these talk by some misguided people that Igbos should leave their regions and be contained in their lands only but helps the Igbo think home agenda in a very synchronized way.

However one of the areas, Igbos have not made much progress is in the areas of Agriculture, cultural &historical preservation and education, visible leadership systems, proper& purposeful land plan, utilization& preservation and religious emacipation.

* I agree with you that Igbos must follow the Israeli model to massively produce food(aquaculture, animal husbandry, food&cash crops, herbal crops, fruits, vegetables &nuts, onramental crops) for their food security to feed&export.

*They have to institute the system to preserve Igbo cultural heritage, history, norms and values(build library, Igbo language& cultural centers, teach the language & culture compulsorily, institutionalise a strong system of cultural connection to other Igbo&Igboid group within Nigeria, Equitorial Guinea, Cameroon,the Gambia, Haiti, Jamaica, Brazil, Barbados, Dominican republic, USA, UK and else where.

*Establish or strength the already existing strong(tried&time tested) leadership&followership systems to help guide their collective future easily even in politics.

*Carry out a collaborative land survey, planning and utilization policies that can help her maximize the land size in their domain and still be able to preserve for future use.

*Actively emacipate their populace from the Nigerian religious tribal pentecostal (manipulations) that are currently going on which isn't designed to benefit the Igbo church faithfuls nor their regions instead seeks to exploit their fervent commitments.
*Igbos must always stand up decisively against any forms of attacks on them(in&outside their lands) to deal with such to serve as deterrence and Igbo leaders must always speak up for their people and take bold stands always.
*Also the Igbo society must come down heavily on those misguided Igbo citizens who soil the good reputation of Igbos worldwide by involving in all manners of crimes both home&abroad(especially drugs,child&human trafficking, baby factory, fake products, fraud and prostitution in foreign lands) to deal with them.
Igbo society should make conserted efforts to eradicate the mindsets of "quick money" and "materialism", ego & careless talk.

*Finally, Igbos must operate a principle of "think home first"....take a very considerable percentage of their investments home and always spend quality time in their regions to actively develop it or better still make active moves to relocate back to their land like other Igbos have started doing to develop it massively in other to have economic leverage too( Igbos must take advantage of this election bohaha especially that of Lagos to think home now)
*Yes, I agree with you that Igbo leaders must approach Nollywood, celebrities and the media to senitize their people and other non-Igbos that Igbo land is not a village neither is a place with no economic potentials.... sensitise their people that they can make it big in life by staying put in their region and developing it without migrating elsewhere.
*Finally the Igbos must work hard to retain areas of their comparative advantages in Nigeria and beyond and localize those areas of advantages such as in (entertainment/Nollywood, sciences, technology, ICT, education, Media, finance & investments, health, sports, service industry, SMEs etc) ......Igbo elites, intelligentia, politicians and citizens must use their positions, cloats, influences and affluences to begin to attract massive investments and opportunities to their region of the south east and use their friendships to encourage their friends to come invest in their lands first before else where.


Finally, it is important to note that Igbos surely do benefit massively from the unity of the Nigerian state and vice versa, respects and have learnt alot of good virtues from other amazing tribes of Nigeria.

It is important important to celebrate & appreciate the Igbos themselves as they have always impacted positively&deepend Nigeria's unity& togetherness through their migration and investments in other regions of Nigeria.

Igbos only demand equity, justice, mutual respect, peace and unity from every tribe and people of Nigeria.

I just hope all Igbos, well meaning Igbos friends, elutes and the right persons of Igbo stock reads this my write up and runs with it.

Success and
Thanks.