₦airaland Forum

Where the rain began to beat us

By Owei Lakemfa

AS we mark the fiftieth year of our flag independence, many Nigerians are despondent believing that our lingering problems are because we are cursed.

This is incorrect, rather, our problems are foundational as typified by our founding Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. He was a school teacher when the colonialists spotted his talent as a “House Nigger”. In January 1947 he was appointed into the Northern House of Assembly and two months later into the Legislative Council (National Assembly) Balewa was of low esteem; he felt inferior to the White man, was grateful to have been colonised, was an unapologetic agent of colonialism, was ready and willing to do the bidding of the British, and did not believe in the unity of Nigeria.

To the colonialists, this was the perfect person to invest in and promote to lead Nigeria. To mitigate any controversy, let me reproduce excerpts of his first speeches at the two legislative houses as published by his friend/master and official biographer, Trevor Clark in the book, A Right Honourable Gentleman: The Life and times of Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

At the Northern House of Assembly, Balewa submitted: “We are fortunate in having the British here as our guides and teachers. They are great colonial administrators and they have great experience in developing and administering many tropical dependencies. I want all our British officers to realise that now is the time when we, as their pupils, need all their patience and courage, and the use of their knowledge and experience. If ever the Northern provinces change, as I know they must, I want them to change into modern Northern Nigeria, but not into some sort of artificial civilization which is not either European or African. The Northern provinces are now facing a great danger.

Evil ideas are creeping into the North from outside sources. In all countries of the world you find men who thirst for power, who agitate the government and disrupt the happiness of the people for the satisfaction of their own personal ambitions. I understand we have such a class of people in Nigeria. I do not know what right those people have to claim to be the voice of the North. We must do something soon in the North to show Britain and the world that these self-styled leaders do not and cannot in any matter or in any way represent us. We have our own leaders whom we have chosen”.

At the inaugural meeting of the National Assembly, Balewa declared: “We are still far from one country, despite the railway train and the motorcar which have created the opportunity of understanding among ourselves.

This alone is not enough. We here are representatives of different communities, to discuss our common problems and to establish our future destinies. The success or failure of the Richards Constitution lies mainly with the unofficial members. We should not close our eyes to the fact that the Yorubas, the Igbos and the Hausas, who are the predominant tribes in the country, do not see eye(to eye).

“…Among the needs of the Northern provinces are mass literacy, and for the education of our boys and girls to go side by side. We have only one secondary school – we ask for five more, three for boys and two for girls. In the awards of scholarships, the Northern provinces should have more places, because the Western and Eastern provinces have been enjoying those opportunities for a long time. Now the time has come for the North, and we should like to make up for what we have lost. We are glad that it has come to the notice of government that the Northern provinces have not been receiving the use of their full share from the Nigerian government.

Well, we do not want to lose utterly, and we ask for the development of the North absorbing the greater portion of the funds allotted to Nigeria from the colonial development, so as to make up their losses from the revenue. We ask for improvement in villages which have remained in the same places as before the British occupation, and for better prices for the farm produce, which means raising the standard of living. Agriculture alone cannot save us, there must be industrialisation. …As to native authorities – we should like the position of our emirs and chiefs, as rulers of their own people, to be clearly defined. Most are men of experience. Their experience and knowledge of their own people and of the local conditions carry great weight.

“… The doctor’s care is still badly needed, but it should be remembered that the child is now fast reaching years of discretion, and he is now asking to be given an opportunity for a quicker growth. Our mistakes could be corrected easily because we should always have the advice and guidance of our British officers…

“There are some people in Nigeria who have taken upon themselves the responsibility of speaking for the whole country as one. A delegation of these people (made up of Herbert Macaulay, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Michael Imoudu) toured parts of the Northern provinces. We did not then understand the real intention of that tour, and we naturally mistook it for one of friendship.

We had never dreamed that it could ever possibly happen that these people could have thought of becoming our mouthpiece. We should like the world to know that in the North we have got our own leaders, whom we have chosen ourselves, to be our rulers and our voice. We do not want our Southern neighbours to interfere in our development. We have never associated ourselves with the activities of these people. We do not know them, we do not recognise them, and we share no responsibility in their actions.

“We shall demand our rights when the time is ripe. If the British quitted Nigeria now at this stage, the Northern people would continue their uninterrupted conquest to the sea”.

Immediately after this speech, on the parliamentary floor, colonial governor, Sir Arthur Richards scribbled Balewa a congratulatory note!

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Igbo si na[b] nwoke ofu ukwu adighi aza akwaa akwuru[/b]!

A one-legged man can never go by the title of "Mr stability"

Onye aghugho lie onwe ya, otu aka ga aputariri!

If a cunning and wicked man insists on burying himself,well,  one of his hands must stick out!

pres-elect:
Onlytruth ikara aka

Were ekele nwanne.

These are the type of guys I like to celebrate. Well done bro!

Ileke-IdI:
I am loving this!!!!!

Even if it's not Jonathan, someone needs to stand up to them. And we want Kwara state back, fully Yoruba

Ileke are you sure you want kwara back? Dem get almajiri o!

Anybody who says that he does not believe in God is lying.

He is lying to the public because deep down his heart, I CAN ASSURE YOU that he knows the truth.

ziddy:
How would you determine when the state police are being abused by the governor? who would even know or have evidence of such abuse? Believe me some Governors are still getting positive results out of the 'Federal' police as we have it (Lagos State is a case in point) while others are getting interactively negative results (Ikedi Ohakim, anyone).

State policing as you've outlined it might as well be the end of the entity called Nigeria  because it will lead to a lot of mayhem & bloodshed. To suborn even the SSS or the police, as a Governor all you need is to be in the good books of Abuja. And you spend money for them. Anything you want they will do for you! The problem as I see it is just a general unwillingness to enforce the law, on the part of our institutions.

We cannot handle state police yet, not with our fu.cked up legal system & corrupt public officials. We cant.

The bolded misinformation is why it has not been implemented yet. It is FALSE that it would lead to breakdown of law and order. What we have already is breakdown of law and order, and the current system has been practiced for 50 years with no results. 
Since I was born, I have never lived in Nigeria without the fear of armed robbers. What I have lived with is an intrinsically inefficient, bloated and dysfunctional Nigerian police force. It just does not work!

Nigeria is a federation with federal and state levels of authority and laws. Why is the federal government doing a job that can only be efficiently done by the state level of government? What type of upside down thinking is that?
If we don't want to practice federalism again, we should stop deceiving ourselves and go back to unitary system like the British.
We are practicing an American system of government. Why can't we enforce our laws like the US? Why are we trying to enforce it like the British? That is really retarded.

Like I said, any state governor that abuses the laws establishing the force will be arrested by a more armed federal police (SSS).
This is also why I advocate for a strong leadership at the federal level. With a strong president, no state governor will stray from the laws, and nobody will undermine the country.

Without a strong leader in Nigeria, NOTHING WILL CHANGE.

We are still having this conversation because Nigeria has never conducted a proper census. I will advocate that in the politics section.

A proper census asking people to identify their tribes in Nigeria will solve this.
The census will create a proper map of Nigerian ethnic groups.
Personally, I struggle with this sometimes because you don't know how to identify people. Some dude comes to me and tells me he is Ikechukwu, and speaks a brand of Igbo to me, I would think he is Igbo.

Boundary groups like the Ika may have mixed ancestry, but a census will figure this out. In such a census, historical linguistic and anthropological investigations will be conducted alongside the census to produce a thorough ethnic map of Nigeria. I'm tired of misunderstandings.

ziddy:
^^

This is flawed logic! How would state police work better in this case?

Shebi they would answer to the Governor, the Governor in this case has chosen to pretend as if nothing is happening in his state. He is complicit! Imagine how far he would have gone with a private army of 'state policemen' at his disposal.

Civil society needs to speak up & force Govt. to do the right thing, instead of cowering in their yards or fleeing the city. We need to continue to speak up as a group anytime we are afflicted. That's the only way to change the current scheme of things!

I'm laughing at how you are always quick to call other posters comments "flawed logic".

I still maintain that ONLY state police can solve this problem because it holds the state governors accountable for failure to rein in crime. Till now, they always complain that the police is answerable to the IG. Imagine Jonathan instructing the IG in Abuja to find the kidnapped kids in Abia state!
Is he a medium or a sorcerer? How would he find them? Meanwhile the kidnappers have upgraded their demand from N20 million to N40 million. That shows that they are confident of not being caught. 

Like I said before, we still have a federal police -the SSS. My recommendation is to scrap the current Nigerian police. Upgrade and equip the SSS to replace them. The SSS will still remain a "secret police", but they will be empowered to step in and arrest any state governor that abuses the use of the state police (who will not be more armed than the SSS).

The main duty of the state police would be to CONTINUOUSLY SEARCH for criminals, instead of a fire brigade approach whereby they respond only when a crime is committed.

The states should receive their share of funds for such state force from the federal government. Such funds will come from the money currently being wasted on the Nigerian police force. So, it goes like this:

Step one: Upgrade the SSS to become like FBI
Step two: Sack and dismantle current Nigeria police
Step three: Disburse NPF funds to the states to help fund their new state police.

Of course states can add to the federal funds to implement a more robust state police within the bounds of the enabling law.

This is a no brainer.

Make me the president of Nigeria today and I will implement this in one year. 

Dede1:
The ndu_chuks post which made the revelation about clandestine meeting in Abuja between the northern politicians and so-called south-south where Edwin Clarke insisted that Ijo person should be the VP is enough evidence for Ndigbo and the so-called south-south ethnic groups besides Ijo to take strong inward look among them selves.

My grandfather told me not worry much about an opponent who had a stranglehold on me but never to forgive the onlookers who kept encouraging the opponent to apply deadly pressure. I shall never support any political candidature that emerges from the group of people I would unequivocally call betrayers.

If Ndigbo ride with GEJ candidature, I must conclude that Ndigbo are worse than bunch of educated fools. 


Are you insinuating it is all dandy if the Hausa or Fulani or Kanuri or even Tiv rule south-south and taboo if Igbo rule? This is unfortunate and misguided yet parochial stream of thought.

I have never fooled myself about the intents of characters like Edwin Clarke of Ijawland. They have only one aim in mind, and that is to be THE dominant force in the south south and even the whole south. However, that does not mean that all Ijaws, or Jonathan himself, share the same rationale and philosophy. Even if they all do, the south is too big and too restless for a tribe of 5 million to dominate.

For now, I'm only concerned with what Ndigbo can get out of a four year Jonathan presidency. He is there, and I don't think the north is sincere with their 2015 carrot.

Why do I say that?

Well, the north has craved political power in Nigeria right from independence and used EVERY means and tricks on the book to keep that power. It is like they live, breath and abide in political power. I cannot say that of any other group in Nigeria. Because of that fact, any group that crosses the north on power issues become their mortal enemy. The Igbo made that "mistake" in January 1966, and though 44 years have elapsed the north is still scheming to keep Ndigbo away from that seat of power.

So, for me, when Lt Gen Ihejirika took over the leadership of the army, I started to believe that no single section owns Nigeria. And if Jonathan completes the Enugu International Airport project, some of the institutions of Igbo oppression designed by the north will start to give way.

Jonathan will inevitably do more in the coming four years. So, I can say boldly, that Ndigbo will not lose more than those whose lives depend on the politics of Nigeria.
Also, if Jonathan is smart, which I believe he is, he will use the opportunity of his presidency to cement the bond between the south east and south south, thereby making it harder for the north to manipulate in the future. There are wounds that needs to be healed and relationships mended.

Like I told Ndu_chucks, if Jonathan is a wise and strong leader, he will lead Nigeria for ever and the north can't do anything about it. All it takes if for him to realize his base, and I think he did that in his choices of army chief and SSS boss. You will also notice that I don't care about fairness in Nigeria because the north is not capable of delivering fairness. That Igboland lacks an international airport 40 years after the civil war, is enough proof of that.
Jonathan is from a minority, but if he plays it well, he can deliver our punch for us. 

Enough said.

I can't believe that someone recommends a "brutal police force" for any part of Nigeria.
Sad indeed.

Personally, I think the solution is STATE POLICE.

I have said this countless times. We have a constitution and statutory codes. All that we need are ENFORCERS of those laws.

All those who say that Governors will abuse them are just dumb. So, you prefer kidnappers and thieves abusing you than a probable governor abuse? The governor is one man/woman. Kidnappers and robbers are legion -thousands. Moreover the governors are answerable to a federal constitution and federal police (SSS). They can be arrested if they abuse the law. So, folks should get real.

We need STATE POLICE!

Onlytruth:
Egbe nkanka nku abughi nwa egbe, n'ihi ya, o mara ihe di iche na nwa okuku na nwa obogwu! 

youngies:
True talk 
Endeavour to translate it next time

Translated:

A kite with tattered wings has to be an old kite, and so, it knows the difference between a chick and a duckling.

Egbe nkanka nku abughi nwa egbe, n'ihi ya, o mara ihe di iche na nwa okuku na nwa obogwu!

Okwukwe ka nwa ewu ji amago nne ya!

Ire oma ka ejula ji aga n'ogwu!

ndu_chucks:
Unbelievable!! This is the kind of misdirected understanding that continues to make you people subservient to your Igbo lords, you will ultimately be ruled by them. Mark my word.

I hereby continue with excerps from a recent interview of Professor Ango Abdullahi, former Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria:

What is your opinion on Edwin Clark and others who have been clamouring for Jonathan to vie in 2011?

This is why I wrote him a letter to remind him. I wrote him a letter personally on why he should tread with caution. We visited Warri a number of times. We had several meetings with the South-South people–mainly Ijaws–in Abuja, and that is how we agreed that they will support a northern presidential aspiration. But they will also want a South-southerner to be the vice-president, specifically, in the words of Edwin Clark, an ‘Ijaw man’. There are several tribes in South-South but he insisted on an Ijaw man. It worked out in the end. I Hope Clark will remember all these. He is not guiding Jonathan along the path of this agreement or understanding that it would get to them, after the North would have run its eight years.[size=16pt] And if things work out the way we plan, the South-South will take its turn in 2015. [/size]And by that time it is the vice-president from that zone that will perhaps, depending on how he performs, emerge as the president. That was our agreement. But now, they want to disown that agreement and still want the North to support Jonathan to continue as president. Something must be wrong with the way they think.


Integrity is not a word that comes to mind whenever the name Edwin Clark is mentioned !!

Thank you for exposing your northern schemes! I have a question for you though. How will your northern presidential candidates keep the promise they are making to the Igbo about supporting them for 2015 presidency?

That you quoted a character like Ango Abdullahi on this issue really shows that you northerners have lost your damn minds!
Desperation is a terrible thing.
Let me tell you, if Jonathan will demonstrate some measure of tough skin and skull, the north will NEVER smell the presidency of that country until it either disintegrates or you northerners are excised from Nigeria. 

You think that only you can play vile politics; well, get ready for the rough ride. The most unfortunate thing for you is that Jonathan is still a young man, and as a result, he can become a life president if he really wants and there is NOTHING you and your brothers can do about that.

Oh, how I wish that Jonathan has balls! 

~Bluetooth:
He would preferred to have died a long time if he knew that he would grow old to become worthless and irrelevant.Awo was noble till death.

No, Awo had to kill himself to exit a miserable life. The Ikemba is still enjoying his beautiful wife and Igbo love. He will continue to live to see the judgment of God on our enemies.

~Bluetooth:
Why would compare ojukwu with Awolowo in the first place ? Like i said earlier,shoe get size !

Oh I agree totally. That is the essence of my earlier post. 

I never compare them. One is clearly better in terms of spoken English and trusted leadership. One is still alive and getting old quietly while the other is long dead.

Beaf:
Ok o! Henter [/b]dia an take[b] pishure na!

lol.

Aigbofa:
I hope someday, someone will rebuild all those Islamic looking buildings to reflect the secularity of Nigeria.

I have nothing against Islam and I like the national mosque, I think it's quite beautiful.

But I don't understand why the seat of government and the national assembly should look like something out of Saudi Arabia!!

Totally agree.

~Bluetooth:
Shoe get size,Ojukwu is no where in the calibre of Awolowo,Balewa and Zik.

As a matter of fact Ojukwu trumps Awo thoroughly. Don't take my word for it. Listen to English at its finest.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBhCiTkqT0?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash]

Another IBB legacy to Nigeria.

mikeansy:
This is the most rational, sensible, comprehensive definition of the PDP zoning policy I have seen yet.

Jonathan's argument here makes a lot of sense and envelopes all the current situations that has transpired around the issue of zoning in PDP.

I have always argued that with Abubakar Rimi or Barnabas Gemade from the North running against OBJ; OR Rochas Okorocha running against Yar'adua and yet PDP recognises the results of these guys from the supposed wrong zones, PDP will have some more explaining of what their so called zoning meant. At that point I suggested the only thing that would make sense is that PDP has been zoning results before election and then conduct a charade election to endorse that earlier result.

But Jonathan's new argument answers this question in that zoning is only after the executive leader has emerged. Then other offices get zone. This line of argument makes a lot of sense because nobody can zone what they do not have.

Because If Atiku claims that PDP can zone the office of President before election. That will simply mean they have also zoned every other office from Senate President to Speaker. What if they zone Senate President to North Central and PDP fails to produce any senator from North central? This simply means zoning or federal character or power sharing or whatever you call it can only happen after elections.

I support President Jonathan on this one. Thumbs up to whoever is the spin doctor who came up with this argument.

I agree with you. One of the lessons I took off his explanation is that if we assume that the PDP zoned the president BEFORE winning the presidential elections, it also follows that PDP will never conduct a free and fair elections as long as a Nigerian president is from PDP. I know that PDP is a rogue party, but c'mon now!  Even armed robbers can't be sure that their next robbery operation will be successful.  
So, indeed, you can't zone what you don't have.

I'm still studying his explanation on "rotation of the opportunity" to bear the PDP flag in the presidential elections.

na_so:
You self dey laugh abi?

I had to laugh at the way you put it. I would be rolling on the floor if I saw it myself. The guy was just being clever and saving his @55.

na_so:
@onlytruth

Bros I no abuse you na. well accept my apologies if you felt insulted by my post.

First knowing that you have posted several threads to promote IBB, and the same you quickly attached GEJ to what happened in Owerri without convincing detail, did not go down well with me too.

I am not, and cannot bully anyone to support any candidate, but I think I have a right to stand up to defend my candidate when he is being maligned without facts.

peace.

Apologies accepted in good faith.

I know that I have often been associated with support for IBB, but the truth is that I have not settled for a candidate yet. I have often accused Jonathan of not making open promises or commitments to Ndigbo in exchange for their votes. Isn't that what politics is all about? My support for other candidates has been based on their open commitment to Ndigbo on one issue or the other. I want Jonathan to make some open commitments (like state police or one more state) to Ndigbo NOW, not tomorrow, 'cos it might be too late. As of today, he would win the south east. But, if he continues with his style of politics, eg muzzling dissent and keeping mum, he will quickly lose the south east. This advise is in good faith.

^^
The cloak and dagger games continue. Ohakim should watch his back.

na_so:
Ohakim got elected as a PPA governor, as OUK'S boy. Then all of you applauded that OUK was standing up against evil PDP. Then Ohakim did nothing wrong. Suddenly he discovered that OUK was going to use him as bargaining tool to go back to PDP, the man refused and returned to PDP on his own. Now suddenly he is Jonathan's boy by your reckoning and he has suddenly turned bad.

If there is any governor in the SE that i see as not being part of the GEJ's arrangement, it is Ohakim. It is common knowledge that one of the northern aspirants has started talking to him about a VP slot. [size=14pt]Ohakim came to GEJ'S declaration ground and just wasted , the entire time singing as if he is in a church choir. He did not utter any word about the declaration.[/size] I simply laughed when i saw it. We refuse to be decieved.

na_so:
Only. . . .   you know better than what you just posted. I have every reason to think so, except if something happened to you lately

We all know that the state governor as the chief security officer of the state weilds considerable powers in this regard. nuff said. I have said  it before and will repeat that for now it stops at Ohakim's desk, until you can provide better details, dont bring GEJ in here.

Besides , I thought it was an Igbo summit, designed to advance Igbo interest, and the venue was not available hence the meeting did not hold. One of the conveners even said  ‘This summit is not anti-Jonathan in any way. We have summoned a session of Igbo leaders to articulate Igbo’s interest and it is on this basis, we will go round to negotiate with any presidential aspirant, including the President or any power bloc."
Now explain how it suddenly  turned an "Anti-Goodluck Jonathan Summit " as the caption states? You and your paid journalists are only being clever by half.

On this your overstated free and fair elections organised by IBB, i must tell you that the Nigerian people have more of the credit for that election than your evil candidate. People got tired of IBB's schemes and everyone decided to work for the success of the elections so the evil one (who is a  genius only in his fantasy world) to just go. 

Do you know that[b] your candidate IBB[/b] , only realised the june 12 election was free and fair when he felt it was time to start campagning? see what IBB said on june 26 1993 when he annuled the elections
Now after annuling a free and fair election, IBB's supporters now use it as a credential  to support IBB's claim that afterall he organised a free and fair election. An election that the evil one knew from day 1 that he would not honour.  someone said  "It is better to fail in a venture that  will ultimately succeed, than to succeed in that , that will ultimatle fail" nuff said.

If you noticed in my earlier reply to you, I did not insult you. You have a right as a Nigerian to support ANY candidate of your choice in this election. Don't come here with your load of crap trying to intimidate and cow other Nigerians from openly discussing their possible candidates in the elections. It is unsophisticated and even childish to think that by ascribing the image of the devil himself to other candidates, yours suddenly becomes Jesus! Truly laughable!

I am insulted by your little games.

As far as I know, Ndigbo have yet to decide on the candidate to support in this elecitons. Any attempt to muzzle free speech and freedom of association in the lead up to the elections, would be the first signs that the elections will not be free and fair. ALL Nigerians should be concerned about that. I am more concerned that people want me to support them without making any promises to me. I would be the worst kind of airhead to support such candidate.

So, please allow my people to associate freely and argue and haggle. Any continued attempts by the state, whether directly or indirectly (through Ohakim), to squeeze our people into a dubious straight jacket, will not pay good dividends to Jonathan either immediately or ultimately.

na_so:
And must you bring jonathan into this?  I know you have gradually emerged as IBB's mouthpiece here on NL, but dont bring GEJ's name into this until you have sufficient info to back your claims.

But on a lighter note, are we saying none of these  heavyweights own  a hotel that could have been used? Besides must the meeting be held in a hotel?

Goodluck Jonathan is emerging as a worse dictator than all dictators in our history.
Yes I have to bring him in because Ohakim does not command the police or the SSS. I hope you don't think we are fools here.

These gentlemen paid for the venue but were prevented from using the venue they paid for.

Stuff like these only happened during military rule.

Even IBB was able to conduct an election considered by many to be the best in Nigeria's history. Meanwhile he was a soldier. Why can't Jonathan who is a civilian allow freedom of association? Is that how we will have a free and fair election next year? The election is already being rigged!

I don't know whether Jonathan or Ohakim realizes that the people they muzzled in this saga are actually the creme of Igbo politics. They are playing with fire here. Make no mistake, this is THE REAL Igbo political egg heads. Anyone toying with them is a fool.
This is still a democracy and people are free to associate and discuss what is best for their people.

I'm beginning to believe that a new type of evil is growing out of the state of brigandage in Aba. If something drastic is not done urgently, this new evil will infect the rest of Nigeria.

In recent past, armed robbers robbed for money. They went from house to house and collected only money. They never touched even the most beautiful woman. Today, armed robbers rob for "toto" and orchestrate the most debased form of debauchery on their victims.

I really think that time has come for Ndigbo to make a stand. Like Joshua asked the children of Israel, "Choose you this day whom you shall serve, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord".
Ndi Aba, Ndi Abia, Ndi Igbo, must we allow our land to be defiled by an armed few?
For how long would we allow evil to destroy our good land and culture?

The solution to this is outside the realm of politics. Abia elders (if there is any left with integrity ) should call an urgent meeting to decide what steps to take to expel all hoodlums from Abia state. Anyone expelled should have their houses bulldozed and the land left permanently undeveloped as a sign to others. Or the land could be sold and the proceeds used to fund a state police whether the federal government wants to accept it or not. We cannot allow our lands to be overtaken by evil.

Ikengawo:
we're always talking about everyone elses tribe, but we seldom talk about what's wrong with our own ppl. i'll start.


im igbo
- our people lie too much

Speak for yourself. Other tribes in Nigeria don't have souls, so lie is the least of their worries.

- our people extremely arrogant

Well other tribes call theirs "swagger". Go figure.

- our women are even more arrogant then the men and rude

If you can't woo them the right way, please get off the road. Our babes are lionesses. They don't fall for anything with a third leg.

- we are the least likely to take pride in our culture.

No, YOU ARE THE LEAST LIKELY TO TAKE PRIDE IN YOUR CULTURE. NOT OTHER IGBO. Take correction.

- we have huge heads

You are echoing other people's stereotypes about your people. That is the worst form of lack of self confidence.

- obsessed with showing off.

Igbo man is the last to show off. He is busy making money. We don't throw owambe parties every weekend.

- elitist

Some may call it finesse. That is why we don't attack foreigners in our land.

- we accuse others of hating us when we're probably the biggest tribalists in nigeria.

How would you know, when you were born and raised in Lagos. You probably don't even speak Igbo.

- lack of scruples. but this is true of all tribes in nigeria, we're all willing to do anything to get ahead regardless of the moral disposition of the act.

I wish we match other tribes in Nigeria on this point. We would be far ahead if we did. We are busy practicing "egbe bere, ugo bere" while folks frame us for things we never did, gang up against us, kill us by millions, seize our hard earned properties, and connive to make us second class citizens in Nigeria.
My friend, the least insult I would give you here is to instruct you to tell your parents that they have stayed too long in Yorubaland. They may not care, but their kids will always be looked upon as fools in Igboland and were Igbos are discussing. A good lesson for other parents. 

Let's wait until someone from Ukwuani wants to run for presidency of Nigeria. Then we will be inundated with his Igbo middle names. 

I have nothing to say to such groups anymore. They can be whatever they want provided they don't mutate when they need something.    folks are shameless and without souls.