I stumbled across this on Facebook. It was written by a certain Ebuka Ikeoyibo. I'm not posting it here so that we can tear ourselves down and go on endless tribal rants. I'm posting it here so we can reflect on some of the points he raised. Please let's ponder on it objectively and see how all tongues and tribes in this nation can integrate seamlessly and get ahead of prejudices and hurts of the past. Some of which we were never even a part of.


One of the closest Igbo man to the President Elect is Dr Chris Ngige Onwa, a Senator who was defeated in the Senatorial Election.

See how bad Igbos are at strategizing? They couldn't override a pathological hatred for General Buhari to make a hedge bet and return this man to the Senate, to enhance his chances at Senate President, in case General Buhari wins, which he did.

Instead folks played tribal and religious politics to the tilt as drunken sailors, and failed the man and the chance to make history as Senate President.
That's what happens when emotions trips common sense and folks succumb to hustlers like Peter Obi and Arthur Eze, hustlers after their own interests instead of the masses they pretend to serve.
I urged caution, I pleaded that we were making a huge mistake to hitch our wagon on Jonathan who wasn't going to win. And predictably he lost, so also our chance in the new administration.

I hate to gloat. But maybe, maybe, only maybe he gets a good ministerial appointment, but nothing beats being Senate President.
Igbos are very bad at politics.

Fifty years after independence, we are yet to produce a president when others have taken multiple turns. Our answer? Blame others! If you only Hausas didn't do this or Yorubas didn't do that, perhaps the god of politics will bless our lot. And sadly it won't stop until we learn to coexist with others instead of our 'better than thou' attitude when dealing with the Hausas and Yorubas. We are not better than anyone, these folks we thumb our noses at, are God's creatures like us.

We don't like the Hausas and we don't like the Yorubas, yet we populate their States in search for our livelihood.

Our politics should mirror our economic aspirations, not the other way around. There is no wisdom in living in the North, earning a living, yet despise the Northerners. That's being ungrateful. The gods of politics don't like that.

How long can this collective amnesia insulate us from meaningfully seating at the table, making contributions to Nigeria's political evolution?
How long can this foolishness go on?
How long?
There is a miserable silence across the land today, because we are realizing that we were sold off for pennies by pimps who parade as Igbo leaders.
Where are they?
Anyone home?

Very wrong and they are trying to blame the loyal Yorubas.

We have no strategy.
We simply don't want anything to do with APC and we are happier that way.

Very tribal Politics,but in the future we will see new politicians made of women ,since more women attend school than the men ,so the future will be interesting from that part of Nigeria

Igbos have not recovered from the stigma of losing the Biafra War. Igbos may not want to admit it, but the pain is still there albeit subliminally! And this is the crux of the matter.

When we understand this, Igbo political strategy no longer becomes too difficult to decipher.

Something has to give for the pain of the civil war to ease considerably. And I believe an Igbo presidency is long overdue!

That's their problem.
They show no love, they get no love.
Just Karma

kelvin100:
We have no strategy.
We simply don't want anything to do with APC and we are happier that way.

Really, so why are Ibos complaining?

Why are you people opening threads and discussions? Or are you in denial? Hypocrisy?

Shame on people who want to reap where they have not sown!

Shame on Ibos who scream they are the "most meritorious" while they want to be given a position they've not merited. The senate presidency should be given to the people who worked hard, the people who believed in the future and what could be possible, not the ones who ate their future dinners with PDP and now resort to emotional blackmail. The Middle Belters came to the table with belief and wisdom that Ibos will never see because of their hatred and they should be the ones to occupy the seat of senate president.

Ibos should work hard for 2019. If they don't, Nigerians will not even consider their emotional trauma because they brought it on themselves!

^^^
Who is complaining?
We don't give a fck about you guys. Deal with it.

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Enough of why did the Igbos did this and that kind of thread please.

It's honestly getting boring,there are a million and one other things to talk about here.

Enough of the Igbo discuss