We are light of the nation! Time to live out the name.

Well done Soludo. We all knew you are coming with lots of uncomfortable policies that will threaten the status qou. Just like you did during Banking consolidation, many will question your intention but in the long run you would have given the Nigerian federation a template for real governance.

I am glad the revolution is starting from my home state.

Complete the bridge first. I trust my Onitsha people, they will give it a name and it will stick. Every other thing na noise.

Okwute na stainless steel. Every dirt thrown at him is easily erasable because man is quality personified.

Whether Nigerians voted him or not is their business. But you this idea of grouping him along side perpetual fraudsters masquerading as political leaders;No way!

CSTRR:

It's when I saw those tinubu minions on an arewa reminding them of ipob because of Peter obi, that I knew that this country is diabolical.

They have a decent man that can change their pathetic state or atleast begin the process of a new national system of values and process which would birth a new nation in the long run.

But instead they want to sacrifice all that on the altar of bad belle politics so that they can vote an old Kleptomaniac or an incompetent vice president, and then flood lagos-ibadan expressway prayer camps for the next 8 years praying for miracle from above.

Do you know I have come to realise that the major problem Tinubu urchins has against Peter Obi is his decency. His persona is a direct indictment on the bullion thief they all worship. The idea is to create the impression that Peter Obi smells as rotten as the Lagos landlord.

Most of them live outside the country but selfishly won't give struggling Nigerians a chance to live quarter of the life they all enjoy in a sane society.

Peter Obi represent a shift towards sanity and they hate it because choas and 'agberoism' keep their benefactors in business.

ajumma:
hear them

You have to choose one poison. Either way, premium tears for you in the end.

CSTRR:
Look at all the people insulting Peter obi on this thread.

They have two things in common.

They either hate him because he is better than any of their corrupt drug dealing ethnic politicians in the race for the presidency.

Or they are just complete morons who hate him for his tribe.

You dey mind morons. Peter Obi have not declared but has unsettled many camps. That's to show you how much of a threat he is.

CXLVII:



South East is still a struggling region and underdeveloped. [b]Not even a single city in entire region, [/b]and why the mass migration to other regions.

What is been built in the East? Niger bridge or the warehouse called a airport?

How do you define a city Mr. Professor?

shortIGBOman:


All the South East States can not survive without funds from FG. That's why it's only the Eastern Region that contribute ZERO to the Nigerian Economy.

Over 90 % Nigerian GDP is from non-oil activities. Oil contributes only a paltry 10% and that revenue goes most pot bellies of the ruling class and their allies in the civil service. South East still contributes in that respect.

Some of you can't differentiate between simple economic terms but will open their mouth to talk rubbish.

Big respect to Anambra state, the Light of the Nation. Keep showing the light.

Thanks to Catholicism, their contribution to Igboland cannot be over emphasised. From schools to hospitals and many positives. It had been a rewarding partnership.

omenkaLives:
But we aren't killing and eating our traditional rulers or kith and kin.

I no go support una. Make una no vex. Insults wont change that.

NO, you are only eating your children through witchcraft.

However, you are just one person with one vote. By 2023 the greater middle belt will have another chance to decide if enough is enough. whatever happens na them sabi.

Rugaria:


They defeated nobody. Biafra fought against Britain, USSR, Egypt, Chad, Niger etc.. That's why Nigerias oil and gas sectors are being run like some sort of bazaar for western powers..
All these impostors desperately trying to claim a victory they know nothing about, shouldn't be dignified with any sort of attention..

of course, I know. That is why I said it makes no sense. It's obvious they've no closure from the war because it was actually not their victory.

[quote author=Reflect7 post=109965306][/quote]

What is their population today?

5 million



Thanks for making my case son.

Peter Obi even without declaring is proving to be the man to beat. Many said no Igbo man can be a political threat, well that is because we haven't shown up yet.

who dey braeeeaaadth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reflect7:


My goodness you are dense. All it takes is a simple Google search to know that many tribes have been exterminated from this earth.

Here are just a few hundred ethnic groups and tribes that were wiped out in BRAZIL, and no longer exist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_indigenous_peoples_of_Brazil

You are the complete olodo here. See how you are running helter-skelter grasping at straws. First, you cited Jew, Congolose and Stalin people among exterminated tribes I lectured you. You ran to Celtic I smoked you out, now you want to use small villages in Brazil that are not up to 5,000 in population as an example. Many of whom took refuge among other tribes and got assimiliated.

Show me an example of a Large ethnic group that has ever been wiped off the face of the earth or drop your mum's phone and go to bed.

Reflect7:


Ignoramus. MANY groups have been annihilated throughout history.

Even the current 'English' people are not in their original land. The Celts lived there and were wiped out, leaving room for Roman descendants who today constitute the 'English'.

As explained by a researcher,''During the Roman conquest of Britain, the Celtic tribes were infamous for waging fierce guerilla war against the Romans. They were a very spiritual people characterised by lots of blue tattoos. During and after the Roman conquest a lot of the tribes were completely wiped out due to the Romans killing everyone.

I'm not sure if every tribe was killed, but I think most of them were.

I have even heard from some sources that the majority of English people today are descended from Italian background (Roman in reality) or from the area we now know as Italy. This was because the Romans sent colonists to settle Britain after the conquest.

After 2000 years since these events, it is hard to determine whether English people are “native” English people, due to the fact that most bloodlines can be traced back to Rome, and not the native English (the Celts).''

lol at the bolded. You would have at least read your own text before rushing to prove a non-existent point.

You CAN'T successfully wipe out a tribe. The only thing you could do is to go the cultural assimilation route if they are a very small tribe.

By the way, Celts are a collection of tribes spread throughout many countries of Europe. They are still found in Irish and even present-day Scotland.

Its funny that you believe cowardly Gowon could achieve what was impossible even for the almighty Roman Empire.

Reflect7:


We call this self-delusion and a mad re-writing of history to meet your Igbo narcissistic requirements.

But you need to do your talking on the battlefield.

We finished work on the battlefield. We laid it all there, fought gallantly like men and moved on once the war ended. Guess who is still suffering from a war hangover? The so-called victors. They've always behaved like they left something on the battlefield hence the need to constantly brag about the huge civilian loss on the Biafran side.

We get it anyway. Britain, Russia and others overshadowed and tainted your claim to victory. And the fact that the Igbos held their heads and shoulders up in acknowledgement of their gallantly gives you heart attack.

You are child, you know nothing.

Reflect7:


Hitler successfully wiped out 6 million 'Jews' in a space of months.

Stalin successfully wiped out 10 million of hIs own people.

Belgian king Leopold wiped out 20 million Congolese.

Where does your dunderhead get the idea that whole populations can't be wiped out?

The only reason YOU are alive today is Nigerian kindness.

You people were soundly defeated in WAR. You people don't know what that means because Nigeria has pampered you, welcoming you back as 'brothers' and giving you money etc.

But you've returned that kindness with spite and more hatred.

You can secede of course, but don't try to secede with the Niger Delta or Benue etc, like Ojukwu and Kanu have tried, and you will be just fine.

Try to steal Nigerian land and resources, and you will be annihilated in war, and this time, there will be no 'No Victor No Vanquished' policy.

It's interesting to know that you a disciple of annihilism.

I asked again and this time you are free to ask your parents, do we still have Congolese and jews around today?

Fun fact; DR Congo : 89,561,400. Congo : 5,518,087. Total 95,000,000.

Jewish Population : 15,000,000.

Now bring out your jotter and write it down. " IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO WIPE OUT AN ENTIRE ETHNICITY"

Reflect7:


IT IS YOU that lacks knowledge of your history.

YOUR Igbo PARENTS, instead of peddling ethnic hate, should have TAUGHT YOU that Gowon's humane policy of No Victor No Vanquished is what accounts for your being alive today.

Dear hungry child, Nigeria has really dealt with you in a bad way. Was your father among those unfortunate souls that died in the ABAGANA AMBUSH? No wonder you are this bitter.

By the way, coward Gowon has no choice after what his soldiers saw in BIAFRA LAND. Remember that OJukwu successfully left the shores of Nigeria and he commands cultlike followership among his people. Ojukwu being alive and in an unknown destination kept the coward in check. He was too afraid to fart. His conciliatory move then was a white flag to Ojukwu wherever he was to be 'calming down'.

Reflect7:


Ignorant spare parts illiterate. Were it not for Nigeria's 'No Victor No Vanquished' policy after the war, you would have been ANNIHILATED as an ethnic group. Your cities would have been renamed with Hausa and Yoruba names, and your women mass raped.

That is what usually happens when you lose a war. Instead Nigerian pampered you and even gave you money! Unheard of in international relations.

It was Gowon who ordered Nigerian soldiers to return to barracks after you surrendered and your leader fled to Ivory Coast.

Without that order, the troops would have entered Igboland and massacred everyone including your parents, so YOU wouldn't be here today.

SO SHUT UP, GO GET A JOB, AND THANK NIGERIA FOR HER KINDNESS.

Oh, and if you must secede, remember to collect your fellow 30 million+ Igbos residing in other parts of the same Nigeria they hate, as they will be deported back to your landlocked eldorado DOT republic.

You called someone an illiterate spare parts trader, then asked him to go get a job? Which job will pay him half of what he makes from importing his containers of spare parts every month?

You clearly need the job because your Nigeria is frustrating you. Only a malnourished child believes it is possible to successfully wipe out a whole population.

helinues:


I have been banned like 3 times regarding this Jewish discussion

Abegi, not interested

You actually have nothing to discuss on this. Arguing facts makes one look dumb.

helinues:
Victim mentality as usual. Always blaming others while exonerating themselves. Of all the 200+ tribes we have in the country, why only you people all the time?

Eish

Your well-known hatred has been acknowledged by researchers. You can't deny what is real.

According to Dr. Thomas Sowell, historical prejudice against jewish business men has also been experienced by other successful trading groups:" Where middlemen are an ethnically distinct group -- the Chinese in Southeast Asia, the east Indians in Uganda, and the Ibos in Nigeria-- that ethnic group is hated by the masses who deal with them"


The Jewish Phenomenon by Steven Silbiger.

[b]

NGpatriot:



You are not armed against them, but you still armed yourselves and send your ipob terrorists, UGM killers and ESN murderers after them to murder, behead and roast their policemen like suya to chop, you slaughter and burn their soldiers in cold blood, you burn and destroy their properties and issue death threats, you kill their transporters, burn their delivery vehicles and ordered your people to stop eating their meat, you banned them from iboland, you call them illiterates, almajiri, parasites and terrorists and so on..


Did you do all this because you love or hate them.?

See, we know how you people play your victim game and shed your crocodile tears, you commit your hateful, violent and bigoted atrocities, then turn around to play innocent victimes as if you did not do or say anything.

You people need to come up with another script because this one is tired and overplayed..

Were IPOB and UGM also responsible for these too?


The innocence of the Igbo ended long time ago. It ended before 1945 when some Northern elements in Jos first rose up and massacred Igbo people. When it was repeated in 1953 in Kano, the British inquiry reported that, "No amount of provocation, short-term or long term, can in any way justify their (Northern Nigerians) behavior." The British report went further to warn that "the seeds of the trouble which broke out in Kano on May 16 (1953) have their counterparts still in the ground. It could happen again, and only a realization and acceptance of the underlying causes can remove the danger."

Of course, it happened again. It happened in all of northern Nigeria in 1966, Kano in 1980, Maiduguri in 1982, Jimeta in 1984, Gombe in 1985, Kaduna & Kafanchan in 1991, Bauchi, Kastina, & Kano in 1991, Zango-Kataf in 1992, Funtua in 1993, Kano in 1994. Since 1999, over 10,000 people have been killed in more than a dozen incidents of religious/ethnic conflicts. And since 2009, over 4000 people have died in Boko Haram attacks. The dispossession and displacement of Igbo people once desired by the leaders of the Northern House of Assembly in the 60s have now been achieved by Boko Haram in the 2010s. In places like Maiduguri only death-defying Igbo stayed put. Even those types have sent their wives and children home.

omenkaLives:
Ahap. Your next president is Osinbajo. Watch out.

This man here is a living example of why middle belt has become a Fulani killing field. I have met a lot of them from that side and from their body language and what you have been displaying on this forum, help is far.

They have accepted that their right to existence is less important than one Nigeria.

Rugaria:


The speed at which pro APC internet hoodlums morph into diehard Igbo haters in this country is quite stunning! Noticed that? Starting to look like folks are hiding under anti opposition slogans to confuse the uninitiated.. It's what it has always been; Hate for these people who will out compete, out hustle and outwit you in almost every field of human endeavor. So what do they do now that they feel they have an edge in politics? why not milk that titty to the last drop? Hate is the petrol...
Not as if your gorry life is any inch better even with power... Tinubu Internet Urchins everywhere..

You are just realising it now. Hate is what propel their support for APC nothing more. Jonathan's number one sin was his too much association with Igbos. They dread competition with Igbos so much because on a level playing field they stood no chance.

It's only in Nigeria that people who won the war are scared shit of people they defeated. I mean it makes no sense.

Vinstel:
The fools can hate all they want, it won't stop the igbo man from progressing and increasing bountifully in all lays his hand upon to do.

According to Dr. Thomas Sowell, historical prejudice against jewish business men has also been experienced by other successful trading groups:" Where middlemen are an ethnically distinct group -- the Chinese in Southeast Asia, the east Indians in Uganda, and the Ibos in Nigeria-- that ethnic group is hated by the masses who deal with them"

The Jewish Phenomenon by Steven Silbiger.

CONTINUED


The scapegoating of the Jews, especially in difficult economic and political times, is not a cause but rather an excuse. To scapegoat, you must first of all hate. Hitler conveniently used Jews as scapegoat because the hatred was already there. It made it easy for Germans to believe that Jews were the reason they lost World War I and why the German economy was fluttering. The fifth reason, that the Jews killed Jesus, falls flat when the Christian Bible says that the Romans killed Jesus with the help of Jews but the hatred was reserved for Jews alone. The Roman Catholic Church, in its Second Vatican Council in 1963, had to officially exonerate the Jews, but the hatred continued.

The idea that the Jews were outsiders should have waned with the increase in Jewish assimilation over the years. But it didn’t. Instead, the complaint changed. In Germany, it turned into: "We hate you, not because you're different, but because you're trying to become like us! We cannot allow you to infect the Aryan race with your inferior genes."

The final reason is that “we hate the Jews because they are an inferior race.” The Jews are not a race, to begin with.

This is how Rabbi Kalman Packouz put the dilemma of the Jews. “Every other hated group is hated for a relatively defined reason,” he wrote. “We Jews, however, are hated in paradoxes: Jews are hated for being a lazy and inferior race - but also for dominating the economy and taking over the world. We are hated for stubbornly maintaining our separateness - and, when we do assimilate - for posing a threat to racial purity through intermarriages. We are seen as pacifists and as warmongers; as capitalist exploiters and as revolutionary communists; possessed of a Chosen-People mentality, as well as of an inferiority complex. It seems that we just can't win.”

In 2005, Okey Ndibe wrote a piece he called, "Thou Shall Not Rent to Igbo." In it he brought to the fore the discriminatory challenges Igbo tenants were facing in finding apartments to rent in Lagos. In a rejoinder titled, "Igboman can be a good Tenant,” Kola Akomolede's argued that it was not only Yoruba landlords who do not want the Igbo tenant but landlords of other ethnicities, including some Igbo landlords. He suggested that the real problem was the nature of the Igbo man and not the discrimination against Igbo tenants which he made every effort to justify. He suggested that Ohanaeze should advice Igbo men to "change their attitude and behave like gentlemen."

European intellectuals, including some Jews, made similar appeal to Diaspora Jews across Europe before Hitler came. Many Jews bought into it. They changed their names and many abandoned their religion all together. Some intermarried with Germans. But when Hitler came, it did not save them.

Instead of finding practical structures based on law and order to deal with universal issues between tenants and landlords, Akomolede made flimsy arguments like the one about the Igbo with "good background" being good tenants. Property consultants and owners, he suggested, should care about good background of tenants. He finally fell back on the popular refrain that the Yoruba are the most accommodating nation in Nigeria.

We have heard that line before. And we are hearing a lot of it today. Some have observed that beneath the issue of discrimination against Igbo tenants is the bigger and subtle issue - the battle for Lagos.

That battle for Lagos has actually come out in the open.

Common with all things Nigeria, Akomolede's greatest failure was in subscribing to the predominant Igbo stereotype on the basis of which he demanded a change in the nature of the Igbo. "Stereotypes are not necessarily malicious," once cautioned Chinua Achebe. "They may be well meaning and even friendly. But in every case they show a carelessness or laziness or indifference of attitude that implies that the object of your categorization is not worth the trouble of individual assessment." That’s how the action of a man or a group of people in Nigeria is often ascribed to the action of an ethnic or religious group.

The old conventional wisdom was that of Samora Machel: 'For the nation to live, the tribe must die.' The new conventional wisdom is that, the tribe can live as long as it wants. But for the nation to live, impunity must die; citizens’ rights must be respected; law and order must be established and enforced, irrespective of ethnicity, religion or creed.

On the one hand, since 1914, the primary question of Nigeria has been the Igbo question. There are other important questions, but in the answer to the Igbo question comes the understanding of all the other questions. On the other hand, the primary tragedy of the Igbo is that they are living in a Nigeria that is yet to come, if it ever comes.

The innocence of the Igbo ended long time ago. It ended before 1945 when some Northern elements in Jos first rose up and massacred Igbo people. When it was repeated in 1953 in Kano, the British inquiry reported that, "No amount of provocation, short-term or long term, can in any way justify their (Northern Nigerians) behavior." The British report went further to warn that "the seeds of the trouble which broke out in Kano on May 16 (1953) have their counterparts still in the ground. It could happen again, and only a realization and acceptance of the underlying causes can remove the danger."

Of course, it happened again. It happened in all of northern Nigeria in 1966, Kano in 1980, Maiduguri in 1982, Jimeta in 1984, Gombe in 1985, Kaduna & Kafanchan in 1991, Bauchi, Kastina, & Kano in 1991, Zango-Kataf in 1992, Funtua in 1993, Kano in 1994. Since 1999, over 10,000 people have been killed in more than a dozen incidents of religious/ethnic conflicts. And since 2009, over 4000 people have died in Boko Haram attacks. The dispossession and displacement of Igbo people once desired by the leaders of the Northern House of Assembly in the 60s have now been achieved by Boko Haram in the 2010s. In places like Maiduguri only death-defying Igbo stayed put. Even those types have sent their wives and children home.

Usually, before Igbo bloods were spilled, it was customarily preceded by arguments in several quarters, official and unofficial, in the media and in secrecy, about the disdain of the very nature of the Igbo and the need for Igbo to change. In Northern Nigeria of 1964, there were calls in the Northern House of Assembly to revoke forthwith all Certificates of Occupancy from the hands of the Igbo residents in the region. Lawmakers stood up in the assembly and promised to find ways to do away with the Igbo. Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gashash, O.B.E and Minister of Land and Survey, told the assembly in March of 1964 the following:

"Having heard their demand about Ibos holding land in Northern Nigeria, my ministry will do all it can to see that the demands of members are met. How to do this, when to do it, all this should not be disclosed. In due course, you will all see what will happen. (Applause)".

The Northern People's Congress, NPC, followed Alhaji Gashash's promise by issuing a booklet called SALAMA: Facts must be faced. This booklet portrayed the Igbo in a very bad light and gave the masses in the North the sense that the Igbo were the source of all their problems. At the same time, the government of Western Nigeria also issued their own booklet called UPCAISM in which the Igbo, called "strangers," were depicted as land grabbers who must be removed from Western lands and government positions. The booklets also displayed pictures of shops and stores owned by the Igbo and indulged in undue character assassination.

The military coup of 1966 presented a pretext to carry out a plan that had been laid out years before. It was a plan that aimed at a total extermination of the Igbo or, at least, their containment. The pogrom and the brutal war that followed was the final solution to the perceived Igbo problems in Nigeria. When Anthony Enahoro traveled round the globe arguing that starvation was a weapon of war, he was following the script for the total extermination of the Igbo. When Benjamin Adekunle boasted to foreign reporters, "I want to see no Red Cross, no Caritas, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no missionary and no UN delegation. I want to prevent even one Ibo from having even one piece to eat before their capitulation. We shoot at everything that moves and when our troops march into the centre of Ibo territory, we shoot at everything even at things that do not move...," he was following the same script.

Just like the once accommodating and charitable and hospitable and generous Germany became a graveyard of Jews when Hitler came, Nigeria became a graveyard of Igbo when Gowon came. And, equally, like Germany, Nigeria failed to accomplish the final solution plan. The only difference was that the Jews learnt from that horrible Holocaust experience and formed their own country while the Igbo failed in that struggle for Biafra and returned to embrace Nigeria as if nothing had happened. Thomas Sowell, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and a renowned scholar on Races and World Economies wrote that, "Most of the great mindless slaughters of the 20th century -- whether of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the kulaks in the Soviet Union, the Jews in Germany, the I[g]bo in Nigeria or the Tamils in Sri Lanka -- have been slaughters of those who dramatically eclipsed the accomplishments of others."

The kulaks were liquidated. The Armenians, the Jews and the Tamils are struggling and still fighting to keep the memories alive and stop it from ever happening again. The Igbo on their part, forgot what happened and why. But the Nigerian elements, disappointed in their unfinished job, have not forgotten. Instead, they are busy preparing for the final battle. Those in doubt should listen when they remind the Igbo openly that “history will repeat itself.” In ways subtle and covetous, they are laying the ground work for what we all know must come. They are making public and closed door speeches in which they are promising that "how to do this, when to do this, will not be disclosed." The seed of the trouble, as far as these Nigerian elements see it, is in the nature of the Igbo. As long as Igbo will not denounce their Igboness, it will happen again. And this time, it may be a total annihilation, from Port Harcourt to Lagos on to Gusau via Abuja.

Acknowledged, it has been difficult, and will always be difficult, for the rest of Nigeria to interpret the Igbo life and worldview. There is a big difference between what the Igbo think and what others think the Igbo think. This misunderstanding, in many quarters, has continued to be transformed into inert hatred. The myth of the Igbo constantly in the face of Nigerians everywhere, has proved very difficult for many to decipher.

In a 2005 Igbo Day keynote speech titled, The Primacy of Political or Economic power: The Igbo Dilemma, Professor Anya O. Anya noted that:

“There is an inherent paradox and contradiction in the lgboman's place in Nigeria. On the one hand given his industry, his intelligence and his enterprise, the Igboman is a desirable gift to Nigeria and the stuff of which great nations and great civilizations can be built. On the other hand, given his presumptive confidence in his abilities and his unabashed hunger to succeed at whatever cost, he engenders fear and unwelcome visibility amongst his compatriots. His lack of subtlety, his drive to overcome and his insatiable "greed" for material progress engenders resentment and often inexplicable, and perhaps, undeserved hostility in the host communities. His "loud" style of Life and the facility with which he can adapt to and adopt new ways can also be unsettling to foreign cultural formations that have come in contact with the lgbo including the colonial masters. There is thus an underlying sense of conflict in the lgbo presence in Nigeria.”

For those who care but do not know and those who know but do not care, the Igbo are not perfect. Like so many other groups, the Igbo have those uncommon human frailties and foibles as well as unique virtues and wisdoms. When their sense of vanity is heightened, their sense of modesty is diminished. When their sense of belonging is enhanced, their sense of variance is lessened. The Igbo know that things others did to them were many but the things they did to themselves were more. (Apologies Prof. Chieka Ifemesia). But the Igbo history warrants that the Igbo must keep eternal vigilance – chasing away the prey while scolding the chick.

In trying to find an answer many observers of negativity in Igbo life seek, I stumbled on "The Focus of Igbo Worldview," a paper presented by Prof. Donatus I. Nwoga. In it he wrote:

“The opportunity which the present times have given for the predominant attributes of the Igbo to blossom into the ugliness of materialistic indiscipline, and lack of grace and finesse, must not be taken to represent the all-time behavior of the Igbo. A characteristic which could have been favorable and positive in one phase of the history of a people, which could again be positive and beneficial in another phase, could present the greatest negative consequences in a transitional phase. In practical terms, the attributes which make the Igbo appear vulgar and materialistic at this phase, could be the same attributes that made them achieving and titled people in the past. The present could merely be revealing the impact of new, uncharted times to the chaotic instinct in those who had been restrained by the limiting structures and facilities of the ordered past. And it is important to retain then the diachronic consciousness that transitional people have the handicap of having lost the grace and poetry of their past, without yet acquiring the grace and poetry, or at least the discipline and sanctions of the modern.”

The duty those who believe in Nigeria owe to this transitioning Nigeria is to give her a structure. In a structured Nigeria where there is law and order, people will be treated as individuals according to the laws of the land. Those who currently take advantage of the disorder in Nigeria would have to get in line or face the letters of the law. In a just and equitable society, those who are industrious, honest and creative will soar. Until then, those who dream of changing the nature of the Igbo or any ethnic group for that matter are confounded with many paradoxes.

The fundamental truth is that the Igbo, as part of humanity, have the right to live anywhere - with or without Nigeria. Let it be known that the original sin of the Igbo has not changed and will never change - it is the sin of being Igbo. It is from it that all other sins emerge and get magnified. The Igbo have nothing to prove and must not begin a defense of that right or a discussion of their Igboness on the terms of others. It is a matter of expediency for the Igbo to know this and for the Igbo to understand its implication in their final battle for survival.

If the Igbo had not embraced western education in the mid-1930s and overtaken the rest of Nigeria thirty years after; if the Igbo had not accepted Nigeria and emigrated from their tropical rain forest of the east to all corners of Nigeria; maybe, the pogrom would not have happened.

For many, a good Igbo is one who is only Igbo in his home; who is not Igbo everyday and everywhere; who is apologetic for being Igbo, and who wears the following expression on his forehead: "how dare you assume I am Igbo?"

Though my last name is as Igbo as they come, I’m sure that I’m not a good Igbo man. I do not conform to every man’s definition of an Igbo, including definition by the Igbo themselves. But that should not be a problem, unless you are Femi Fani-Kayode and his like.

There are serious people vigorously dedicated to the search for a good Igbo man or woman. I enthusiastically applaud them. And I must add, with all honesty, “Bros, Good luck with that!”

(This is an updated version of my 2005 article, Igbo: The Final Battle)

By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo


Between 250 CE and 1948, Jews were expelled from Europe over 80 times. That is, in 1,700 years, people in Europe expelled the Jews at the average rate of once every 21 years.



It happened in France, England, Spain, Portugal, Germany and dozens of other countries. These countries in their own characteristic ways rose up one day to declare that they were tired of hosting Jews and tolerating their behaviors and accepting their attitude that whatever land they lived in was no man’s land. These Europeans claimed they were more charitable, hospitable, accommodating and generous to the Jews than any other nationality, but the Jews abused it. They demanded that all Jews leave or be vanquished. They said they tried but they could not see any good Jew to make them change their minds.

Historians who have studied the phenomenon came up with the usual explanations given as the reason why Jews were expelled. Here are six typical reasons (from history books and online sources) as expressed in popular quotes used during each expulsion, massacre and persecution. 1.) "We hate Jews because they possess too much wealth and power." 2.) "We hate Jews because they arrogantly claim that they are the chosen people." 3.) "Jews are a convenient group to single out and blame for our troubles." 4.) "We hate Jews because they killed Jesus." 5.) "We hate Jews because they are different than us." 6.) "We hate Jews because they are an inferior race."

Historians have examined these reasons in order to see if they were causes of the hatred or the excuses for the hatred. Historians propound that if they are causes, once the cause is taken away, the hatred will vanish. But if the cause is taken away and the hatred remains, then, it is mere excuse.

On the economic reason which says that Jews possess too much wealth that causes envy and resentment, historians found out that the Polish and Russian Jews of the 17th -20th century were “dirty poor” yet, they were hated. When the Jews are doing well, the myth that they have a plan to rule the world by controlling governments and financial establishments took shape in the fictional work called, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Though it has been debunked as fiction, it remains a bestselling book in the world.

On the idea that the Jews were claiming to be the chosen ones, historians noted that the Jews of Germany in the 19th century denied the concept of being the chosen ones. Many of them assimilated with mainstream Germans, abandoning their language and culture and ways of life. Yet, when the holocaust started, it did not save them. And the Larry Kings of America, who changed their names to hide their identities and those who are not practising Jews like Madam Albright, have not been spared as objects of hate. Surprisingly, in today’s world, it is the Christians and the Muslims who openly claim that they are the ones chosen by God and nobody can get to God except through their intermediaries- Jesus and Muhammad. But they don’t get the kind of hatred that the Jews get.

12Monkeys:


And the doings of Zik and ojukwu you paid with 3 million igbolets and will remain perpetual osus in Niggeria

Young fool calm down. Do you know how many of your cowardly fellows on the Nigerian side that has tried for the past 50 years to lessen the burden of guilt on their consciences by blaming the Igbos for the genocide that happened in our land?

The fact that you refuse to own up to your shit makes you eternal cowards not worthy of respect from any Igboman.

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Even Igbos won't support an Igbo for presidency.

Stop fooling yourselves .

The saliva dripping fool is you for not noticing what the time says. Wake up and smell the coffee.

12Monkeys:
Remember the Israeli documentary crew that were arrested by DSS sometime last year?

Remember that their arrest by the DSS coincided with that of Nnandi Kanu?

Well this was a Jewish trick played by Mossad in conjunction with their Sunni allies in the Buhari govt to throw off the stench of Mossad in the abduction of Nnandi Kanu.

Yes, Mossad was behind Nnandi Kanu's abduction in far away Kenya just as Mossad was contracted by the Buhari Military regime back in 1984 in an errily similar abduction saga involving Umaru Dikko. The Dikko affair was a joint Nigerian Military govt and Mossad operation to abduct and repatriate Umaru Dikko from London where he was on self exile back to Nigeria.

The Jewish film crew are Mossad and their fake arrest was to deflect Mossad involvement in Kanu's abduction as well as provide the Israeli govt a cover to ignore IPOB demands for Diplomatic pressure on the Nigerian govt. Why will the Israeli govt give priority on their Shabbat goy instead of their very own citizens ? The fake arrest provided Israel (a supposed ally of IPOB) an excuse not to meddle into Kanu's case but rather concentrate on that of their own citizens. Has any one IPOB member asked why Israel has not bothered to look into Kanu's case?

They are playing you fools.

Israel is a solid ally of the Sunni block headed by Saudi Arabia. Sometime in 2016, crowned prince Mohammed bin Salem dragged Nigeria into his Sunni alliance. That same Sunni alliance has since signed and tested a military alliance with Israel. Kanu's abduction was just another show by Israel on their solidarity to the union just as they did same in the highly sectarian Armenian and Azerbaijan border wars of 2020.

Trust me no Igboman would have the time to read conspiracy theory about your tribe. You know why, you are not a goddammed threat. I know that's our number one sin; we don't rate you!

12Monkeys:



It was you Igbos that came up with Decree 34 and the forced unitary centrist arrangement under Ironsi.

It was your Zik that ensured that Nigeria's colonial borders remain invoilable by ensuring that there was no referendum clause in our constitution. Same Zik took his marxist ideology to the OAU and so to it that newly independent african states maintain and support each other's inherited colonial borders..

You parasites are the real unity beggars.
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What exactly were your fathers doing while Zik did all these omnipotence activities. Are you saying that they were so useless that a single Igbo man was busy determining their future and they sat like idiots watching.

C'mon give your cowardly ancestors some credit abeg.

Wow!

The real propaganda machinery has been rolled out. Ever since Igbos' seriousness for presidency started gaining momentum, eternal cowards that do not want to compete are playing the Igbophobia card.

You guys should not run when the retaliation starts. Because this time around we are more than prepared to deal with idiots once and for all.