It was a case of "he who the gods want to destroy, they first make mad". Without there being a vacancy, Atiku made himself the lord and master of the Igbos who must pass through him to gain the Presidency. So he did not have any restraint whatsoever to jettison his Party's own rules and regulations on power rotation and installed himself the Capon. Also, because he believed that the Igbos(based on the voracious, greedy, fickle minded, criminal Igbo politicians he had been hanging out with for the last twenty years) cannot fight back, he also retained Ayu ( a non-southerner) as his Consigliere. It was incredulous to behold : you have already usurped the rotational cycle that should have gone to the South and the complaint was very muted. That was not enough for you. You wanted to teach the Igbo's especially that you are their god. Hence you refused to remove a useless Ayu that was virtually of very little political relevance to Atiku or anyone else for that matter, despite the protestations of the South. That was his madness from the gods. I just knew then that the gods had infected Atiku with madness. To make sure he will never be president in this lifetime, the gods introduced a trader into the mix and the rest as they say, is history. It was the same greed that drove Atiku to leave Jonathan in the lurch in 2015 and hence handed Nigerians over to Bubu who showed them how to count their teeth with their tongue (Lol, Bubu showed you guys shege). I do not see the political permutation under which he will ever be the candidate of the PDP for a presidential election.

But I am not holding my breathe. The Igbo political class and what is left of it's already mostly diminished intelligentsia (absent Chimamanda Adichie etal) is the most criminally minded, individualistic, selfish, self centred, self immolating group anywhere in Africa, with an "Nzogbu Nzogbu" mentality to every issue. It may be that the "Nzogbu Nzogbu" mentality is deliberate dissonance to cloak and mask their lack of vision (other than serving their stomachs which is their gods ), strategy, knowledge, understanding or even common wit. They are always ready to bend down and pull down their trousers for the highest bidder so far their personal, individual interests will be met. Peter Obi was not an Igbo Candidate. He was the Candidate of the oppressed, regardless of whether he knows his left from his right when it comes to being the CEO of a country of more than 220 million people with some of the greatest challenges of the 21st century(though you can argue that since Bubu was able to be President, then it shouldn't really matter who becomes President as a five year old would do a much more better work than Bubu) .

You can be sure that the Igbo's will get more individualistic as we get into further election cycles. They will most likely not ever win power through the electoral process in Nigeria and they deserve that. Their ostracization and exclusion from real power will exacerbate under the Tinubu administration. Before this new administration completes it's first term, Ndi Igbo will begin to understand what has happened to them. They do not yet know what has happened to them. But I'm glad they woke up this week to see their shops being demolished in Lagos for flimsy reasons. I understand the strategy is to ultimately displace them and bring in the Chinese to sell the same products directly. They will finally begin to understand the value and importance of wielding political power and influence in a retrogressive society such as Nigeria where there is no rule of law, where the Political class has developed an excellent strategy of wholly and completely capturing the Judiciary as a means to public office( a cheaper alternative than having to bribe millions of election voters). But they don't think anymore. It is a shame. The Igbos were the best in every sphere of life as at independence. That is why it is said to be careful who you cohabit with. Hanging out with Nigeria has reduced the Igbos to the level of other retrogressive Nigerian ethnic groups - low to average intelligence, inability to see into the future, extremely dirty cities, towns and villages that compete with those in Ondo State for the title of "dirty and 12th century towns", inability to plan twenty, thirty years ahead for every aspect of life. "Nzogbu" Nzogbu" has come full circle.

Now, Ndi Igbo are the group to be most pitied in current Nigeria. We have zero opportunities back home and have to run to the SW and the North to become economically viable. There is not a single person thinking for us as a collective. Ohaneze Ndi Igbo is a collection of mortally and morbidly corrupt rascals pretending to have some influence. All we see is a begging strategy( abeg release Kanu for us. Please dash us Senate Presidency, even from that fantastically corrupt Orji Uzor Kalu) that has further ridiculed and eroded what is left of the small political capital we have. Of course, in line with our Nzogbu Nzogu strategy, we are fighting to retreat to the place we call home(Biafra) without first taking a look at where you are retreating to. Igbo land is full of intra ethnic, inter clan strife over land and other limited resources and brothers keep killing brothers. Now it is not difficult to guess how we will fare if all of Nigeria come together and grant us our independence. There will be serious blood on the first day, until we get tired or we kill off each other.

My parents live in Aba where I spent my pre-teenage years. I will not let my dogs go to Aba and I haven't been in near a decade. The ghettos of Warsaw where the Jews rioted and were massacred in the 20th century is paradise compared to Aba. You cannot even call it a Town, let alone a city, if you follow the indicea for such. An average Igbo man has lost the natural logic that comes with the human brain( a problem common with a great majority of Nigerians anyway). A sign of maturity is to fully understand the root of our problems before we attempt to fix them. We have had Governors in the five Igbo states in the last twenty years and you cannot see what they have done with the huge income that has accrued to them from the federation, running into hundreds of billions of Dollars ( not Naira). The illogical Igbo will dance in excitement at a few kilometres of road spattered with asphalt, that is no different from roads built by the Railroads in the USA in the late 19th century to access train stations.

We habor millions of young men who abandoned the type of education that sears the mind and alters it's purpose on the platform of excellence. They abandoned this for what the whiteman, with his usual guile , now call the greatest venture capital project in the world( the Igbo apprenticeship system that traps millions of otherwise intelligent young men who should be properly educated in technology and Science and encouraged to research and create real products for the 21st century, something we were good at during the Nigeria Biafra civil war). Millions are trapped in this crazy system and millions more are queuing to join them, when all it takes to import spare parts is to set up one publicly quoted and funded company for each type of spare part, run the company professionally and allow these millions of young people to dream dreams and fulfil them in other areas of human endeavour. Instead what we have are hundreds of thousands of small shops at Alaba and other places, stacked with millions of young men whose only motto is to worship on the alter of buying and trading and the attendant money. By the time Tinubu and his friends are done with Ndi Igbo, we may not have even one stall left in Alaba.

Those anxious to exit Nigeria did not and have not for once thought of going after each of the Governors who have ever ruled in Igbo land and the current occupants. If the five Igbo Government houses serve as Service Centres for all of Igboland, we will overcome most of our challenges within the next five years, with equity and accountability and without the need to leave the federation and kill ourselves some more. But that is too much thinking for the average Igbo. How do you shamelessly put yourself forward and be begging to lead others, when your own house is in disarray? Don't tell me that the other occupants of Nigeria are doing the same. We are not them. Its possible we were given five gold talents from the beginning of time and they were given just one silver tablet. We had a highly elevated value system that ran for hundreds of years. How can we be comfortable with mediocrity simply because it surrounds us?

For several years all through my teenage years to my thirties, I always believed that Nigeria should be commented on and discussed via the lens of citizenship rather than ethnic irredentism. But what I saw from a good section of the Yoruba speaking people of Nigeria during the last election circle has convinced me beyond an iota of a doubt that you must first be an ethnic jingoist before you can become a fully integrated Nigerian as is presently constituted. So I have suddenly begun the process of first seeing things from the Igbo perspective before integrating into the overall Nigerian situation. Nigeria does not have a single citizen. Not one. That point was very clearly shoved down our throats by Prof Oluwole Soyinka, the hero of my teenage years, in stark clarity after the last election cycle. That is the very man who taught me that "the man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny". I read that book severally when I was barely a teenager and it has had a continued effect on my world view, informed my student activism back at university and my continued determination to not in any way oppress my fellow man because of differentials in our material circumstances. This past election cycle, he finally and fully revealed himself( note he did it all by himself. He was not outed by a blogger or anyone else. He outed himself by his own hands). He did not just keep silent in the face of tyranny. He proactively opted to support and become a voluntary mouthpiece of the oppressor against the oppressed. Oluwole Soyinka may have "died" during the last election cycle(He kept silent against oppression and hence died, as he himself succinctly posited in his book), he had been on his death bed for more than forty years. Those who followed him closely noted his activities at the Federal Road Safety Commission and his relationship with Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi who was a Governor of Rivers state. I guess he himself finally got tired of being a god and outed himself irreversibly. Finally it was clear to everyone that this god has feet of clay. I have since spent time "mourning" Oluwole Soyinka. It was personally deeply shocking and an incredible "death", a harakiri of the magnitude of 10/10 on the Ritcher scale. That man's actions have convoluted my ability to pronounce decency on those around me. It seems we have to wait to die first, before our true values and character can be gleaned. His treachery and betrayal affected me immensely. I recently re-ordered some of his books I could find. I want to make out time and study them(not read). It's possible somewhere in there, he revealed his true self but I missed the revelation. However, I will continue to derive joy from his works. But "Kongi" has passed, as my American friends will say when someone "dies".

As I said, before the last election cycle, I had always seen things first from an objective, independent perspective regardless of the identity or ethnic leaning of the individual(s) concerned. That has been shattered by my former god. But I will rise up. I will rebuild myself. I will gain back my logical independence and defend what is right, speak truth and continue to open my heart to the hundreds of individuals whose first language is Yoruba and with whom I have been friends for a decade or more.

I have wanted to write this for a while now. But I needed to get my emotions under check first. But I was clear that I was not going to take a pass on commenting on Oluwole's tyranny for, despite his betrayal, I will still not keep quiet in the face of tyranny, because the man truly does die who keeps quiet in the face of tyranny or who joins, actively participates and become part of the tyranny.

I can go on and on. I'm just going to stop here. That's why I don't write or exchange views on Nigerian Politics. I get mad when I see individuals and groups created in the image of God behave like the 3rd specie, a specie lower than the animal specie. In my wildest imagination ( which can be very vivid at times) I never imagined that the day will come when I CANNOT EASILY juxtapose Orji Uzor Kalu and Oluwole Soyinka. Ha! The pain is still raw.

NemoDatQuod

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