₦airaland Forum

etchenwafor:

Don't start with this anambara/IMO thing...Competition breeds success facts but you can't see them attacking or killing each other if it's like what you said then the Yoruba's arent united because if its not ife vs modakeke it will be eguns vs Yoruba's in Lagos...So please that is not an excuse.. The nigerian government created states/regions while the states and regions they created for Igbo's was to divide us...imagine a stupid military general adding oil rich Igbo communities to form states with other ethnic groups so that there kinsmen will be divided... Imagine the same heartless man taking Igbo towns and communities to form state/regions with other ethnic group so that the Igbo people will be divided... You see it online an Igbo person from IMO can't say asaba is an Igbo town or one oil rich Igbo community in the phantom south south is Igbo land without a madman shouting land grabbing up and down the thread...That's a fact and it was the Nigerian government fault the Igbo nation is not united..

1. Raining abuse on each other and calling each other derogatory name is hate, not competition.

2. Ibo people not united has nothing to do with the FG and I don't even know why you blame everything on the FG as if you have no leaders, traditional leaders and elders in the SE. Whatever shortcomings you have, you blame the FG and other people.

No entity can disunite a united and stable community.

3. If other people don't like you, maybe you should look at yourself and wonder why people don't like you. Maybe it's how you interact with other people and how annoying you are sometimes.

You want biafra, but you still abuse and claim other people's land as yours, you say you own other people's land and their land is no man's land, you want to claim and join the SS with your biafra pipe dream and they keep telling you that they don't want to be part of your biafra.

At what point do you start questioning your own soul per how you treat other people.

Afam4eva:
You know, this is actually one of the worst times to be an Igbo man as far as being part of the Nigerian entity is concerned. We know that since the end of the civil war the hate for the Igbo man has been engraved in the minds of the average Nigerian, from the west to the North and even to the South-south. Though the Igbos did a pretty good job despite the adversities by pulling themselves out of the rubble and from 1999, we started to enjoy some level of prosperity politically, even though i feel it wasn't enough considering the fact that we're part of the tripod upon which this nation was built. Atleast it was a good start.

However, a little more than a decade later, the Igbo nation is looking more like a conquered territory. Some people blame it on wrong political calculations and alliances while others blame it on the hate that the Nigerian state has had against people of Igbo extraction. I would blame it on the unwillingness of Igbos to play politics the Nigerian way.

It has come a time that we need to forego the emotions of the civil war and solidarity with any group and play politics the way the Northerners play or atleast, go the route of the Yorubas. These people have mastered the idiosyncrasies that is Nigeria and have seized the moment to put themselves at a stage that will benefit them. It seems the Igbos are the only majority group that have failed and looking like a minority group by the day. Instead of deceiving ourselves by concocting spiritual alliances with a region known as the south-south or Niger Delta or whatever they want to call themselves these days, our alliances should face westwards and to the north. The people from the south-south are the most ungrateful humans ever to walk this part of the world. How can one explain that a group as big as the Igbo race put all their eggs in one basket for a man known as Goodluck Jonathan who wasn't even an Igbo man and as soon as he lost, his people started throwing abuses at us.

The first mistake you don't make in politics is to bring yourself down to align with minorities except it's for your own interest. It's high time we stopped being emotional and moved with the tide and align with satan if need be because contrary to what a lot of Igbos may think, we're no saints and nobody is looking for a saint in Nigeria. As long as you're crooked but appear friendly, people will respect you.

You don discourage me even before finishing reading and enjoying your write-up.

The highlight says you are part of the problem since you are part of the victim and blame other people mentality.

I know for a fact that Nigerians don't hate you and it's the other way around.

Ibo people are all over Yorubaland living in peace, doing business and making money, raising families and so on.

Other Nigerians especially Yoruba people hating you is a reflection of your own hate, your state of mind and communal paranoia.

On the other hand, the only hate I see is Ibo people hating not only the rest of Nigeria but also their own Ibo people.

We see and read here every day how Anambra people abuse and treat Imo people like trash and so on.

Handle the hate within your own Ibo community first before facing other people with all that.

When ipobs turn into entire world.?

The fact that you don't have or respect your elders doesn't mean other people should not respect their own elders.