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Yorubas Are The Problem With Nigeria
says Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
 Our Reporter 19 October, 2015
The Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned
by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the
years to be incapable of rising above narrow
tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from
other sections of the country by treating other
groups with respect. Practically every crisis in
Nigeria since independence has its roots in this
attitude.
The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits
of retribution; and
The Yoruba Factor and “Area-boy” Politics.
My views on the Yoruba political leadership have
been thoroughly articulated in some of my
writings, prime among which was ” Afenifere:
Syllabus of Errors” published by This Day (The
Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was
also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust
entitled ” The Igbo, the Yoruba and
History” (Aug. 21, 1998).
In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as
mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself
over the years to be incapable of rising above
narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill
from other sections of the country by treating
other groups with respect. Practically every
crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots
in this attitude.
The Yoruba elite were the first, in 1962, to
attempt a violent overthrow of an elected
government in this country. In 1966, it was the
violence in the West which provided an avenue
for the putsch of 15th January. After Chief
Awolowo lost to Shagari in 1983 elections, it
was the discontent and bad publicity in the
South-West which led to the Buhari intervention.
When Buhari jailed UPN governors like Ige and
Onabanjo, the South-Western press castigated
that good government and provided the right
mood for IBB to take over power. As soon as
IBB cleared UPN governors of charges against
them in a politically motivated retrial, he became
the darling of the South-West. When IBB
annulled the primaries in which Adamu Ciroma
and Shehu Yar Adua emerged as presidential
candidates in the NRC and SDP, he was hailed by
the South-West. When the same man annulled
the June 12, 1993 elections in which Abiola was
the front-runner, the South-West now became
defenders of democracy.
When it seemed Sani Abacha was sympathetic to
Abiola, the South-West supported his take-over.
He was in fact invited by a prominent NADECO
member to take over in a published letter
shortly before the event. Even though Abiola had
won the elections in the North, the North was
blamed for its annulment. When Abdulsalam
Abubakar started his transition, the Yoruba
political leadership through NADECO presented a
memorandum on a Government of National Unity
that showed complete disrespect for the
intelligence and liberties of other Nigerians.
Subsequently, they formed a tribal party which
failed to meet minimum requirements for
registration, but was registered all the same to
avoid the violence that was bound to follow non-
registration, given the area-boy mentality of
South-West politicians. Having rejected an
Obasanjo candidacy and challenged the election
as a fraud in court, we now find a leading
member of the AD in the government, a
daughter of an Afenifere leader as Minister of
State, and Awolowo´s daughter as Ambassador,
all appointed by a man who won the election
through fraud.
Meanwhile, nothing has been negotiated for the
children of Abiola, the focus of Yoruba political
activity. In return for these favours, the AD
solidly voted for Evan Enwerem as Senate
President. This is a man who participated in the
two-million- man March for Abacha´s self-
succession. He also is reputed to have hosted a
meeting of governors during IBB´s transition,
demanding that June 12 elections should never
be de-annulled and threatening that the East
would go to war if this was done. When Ibrahim
Salisu Buhari was accused of swearing to a false
affidavit, the Yoruba political elite correctly took
up the gauntlet for his resignation.
When an AD governor, Bola Tinubu, swears to a
false affidavit that he attended an Ivy League
University which he did not attend, we hear
excuses.
For so many years, the Yoruba have inundated
this country with stories of being marginalised
and of a civil service dominated by northerners
through quota system. The Federal Character
Commission has recently released a report
which shows that the South-West accounts for
27.8% of civil servants in the range GL08 to
GL14 and a full 29.5% of GL 15 and above. One
zone out of six zones controls a full 30% of the
civil service leaving the other five zones to
share the remaining 70%. We find the same
story in the economy, in academia, in
parastatals.
Yet in spite of being so dominant, the Yoruba
complained and complained of marginalization.
Of recent, in recognition of the trauma which hit
the South-West after June 12, the rest of the
country forced everyone out of the race to
ensure that a South-Westerner emerged, often
against the best advice of political activists.
Instead of leading a path of reconciliation and
strong appreciation, the Yoruba have embarked
on short-sighted triumphalism, threatening other
“nationalities” that they ( who after all lost the
election) will protect Obasanjo ( who was forced
on them). No less a person than Bola Ige has
made such utterances.
To further show that they were in charge, they
led a cult into the Hausa area of Sagamu,
murdered a Hausa woman and nothing happened.
In the violence that followed, they killed several
Hausa residents, with Yoruba leaders like Segun
Osoba, reminding Nigerians of the need to
respect the culture of their host communities.
This would have continued were it not for the
people of Kano who showed that they could also
create their own Oro who would only be
appeased through the shedding of innocent
Yoruba blood.
I say all this, to support Balarabe Musa´s
statement, that the greatest problem to nation-
building in Nigeria are the Yoruba Bourgeoisie. I
say this also to underscore my point that until
they change this attitude, no conference can
solve the problems of Nigeria. We cannot move
forward if the leadership of one of the largest
ethnic groups continues to operate, not like
statesmen, but like common area boys.
iii.The Igbo Factor and the Reasonable Limits of
Retribution.
The Igbo people of Nigeria have made a mark in
the history of this nation. They led the first
successful military coup which eliminated the
Military and Political leaders of other regions
while letting off Igbo leaders. Nwafor Orizu, then
Senate President, in consultation with President
Azikiwe, subverted the constitution and handed
over power to Aguiyi-Ironsi. Subsequent
developments, including attempts at humiliating
other peoples, led to the counter-coup and later
the civil war. The Igbos themselves must
acknowledge that they have a large part of the
blame for shattering the unity of this country.
Having said that, this nation must realise that
Igbos have more than paid for their foolishness.
They have been defeated in war, rendered
paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties
declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of
strategic public sector appointments and
deprived of public services. The rest of the
country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has
continued to deny them equity.
The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba
Bourgeoisie have conspired to keep the Igbo out
of the scheme of things. In the recent transition
when the Igbo solidly supported the PDP in the
hope of an Ekwueme presidency, the North and
South-West treated this as a Biafra agenda.
Every rule set for the primaries, every
gentleman´s agreement was set aside to ensure
that Obasanjo, not Ekwueme emerged as the
candidate. Things went as far as getting the
Federal Government to hurriedly gazette a
pardon. Now, with this government, the
marginalistion of the Igbo is more complete than
ever before. The Igbos have taken all these
quietly because, they reason, they brought it
upon themselves. But the nation is sitting on a
time-bomb.
After the First World War, the victors treated
Germany with the same contempt Nigeria is
treating Igbos. Two decades later, there was a
Second World War, far costlier than the first.
Germany was again defeated, but this time, they
won a more honourable peace. Our present
political leaders have no sense of History. There
is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966
and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and
Ojukwu. There are Igbo men on the street who
were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians,
are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of
earlier generations. They will soon decide that it
is better to fight their own war, and may be find
an honourable peace, than to remain in this
contemptible state in perpetuity.
The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba
Bourgeoisie have exacted their pound of flesh
from the Igbos. For one Sardauna, one Tafawa
Balewa, one Akintola and one Okotie-Eboh,
hundreds of thousands have died and suffered.
If this issue is not addressed immediately, no
conference will solve Nigeria´s problems. By
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The
“National Conference On The 1999 Constitution”
Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice
And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa
House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September,
1999.