Though Igbo, I don't understand Igbo people (FULL VERSION)

By Azuka Onwuka

Even though I am Igbo, I must confess that I still don't understand Igbos fully. If I don't understand Igbos fully, imagine how wrong most non-Igbos would be when they make conclusions about the Igbos.

The natural trend is that people migrate from poorer and less-developed areas to richer and more-developed areas. That is why when non-Igbos see the huge number of Igbos outside Igboland, they naturally conclude that Igbos "run away” from “their jungles filled with mud houses and thatched roofs” to "better" places. You cannot blame them, because just like I said, Igbos are difficult to understand even by fellow Igbos.

In Nigeria, there is no generally accepted means of determining a richer and more developed area, but there are some parameters that may give us an idea how the states stand. One is the amount of cash that circulates within a state. The second is the cost of property in a state or city.

In May 2013 when the Central Bank of Nigeria was planning to introduce the cashless policy, the then deputy governor of the CBN, Mr Tunde Lemo, disclosed that 90 percent cash transactions in Nigeria occurred in 6 states and Abuja the Federal Capital Territory. He listed them in this order: Lagos, Rivers, Anambra, Abia, Kano, Ogun plus Abuja.

We know why Lagos will always be on top: nation's former capital and current commercial capital. Rivers is the oil capital. Ogun is the gateway state which has benefited from the expansion of Lagos. Kano is the largest state in population and the heartbeat of the North. But why should Anambra and Abia be among the top 6? They have no major federal government projects to attract people. They were never capitals of Nigeria. In fact, they are new states created in 1991 with new capitals in Awka and Umuahia respectively. Each of them had to start afresh to construct a government house, secretariat and infrastructure.

The reason why Anambra and Abia are among the states that control the highest amount of cash is simple: Anambra has Onitsha (which has expanded into Obosi, Ogbaru, Nkpor and Ogidi) and Nnewi, while Abia has Aba. These are big commercial cities built, developed and sustained by the Igbos without external help or federal government support. Note that Onitsha and Aba were destroyed during the 1967-70 Biafran War and were only rebuilt after the war. Nnewi became a commercial city during the 1970s after the pogrom and Civil War when returnee Nnewi indigenes decided to start doing business in their hometown.

The second point is property price. If you need a duplex on a plot of land of less than 600 square metres (120 by 60 feet) in the central business districts of Onitsha, Aba, and Nnewi, you should be ready to part with as much as 200 million naira. Outside Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, there is no other Nigerian city where property is more expensive than in Nnewi, Onitsha, and Aba.

There is no way an area with such cities and cash-flow and high cost of property can be less developed than other towns and cities in Nigeria. Surprisingly you see hordes of people from Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi and other Igbo towns leaving the same cities to settle in remote towns and villages in Nigeria which are far less developed than theirs. That is one of the reasons I say that I don't understand the Igbos. Unlike most human beings, Igbos don't settle in certain places because such places are better than theirs; rather they seek out virgin lands. An Igbo believes that a fellow Igbo knows what he knows; so he needs to go to uncharted territories so that he can meet a need.

Some years ago, I heard that Igbos were trooping to South Sudan. I was surprised and enquired into it. What I found out was that with the war that had ravaged South Sudan, there was no electricity, no water, and other essential commodities. So there was a need to satisfy. And the Igbos trooped into the country to fill that need, taking the risk but making the money.

Another reason why it is hard to understand the Igbos is their attitude to risk. How many times has Igbo property been destroyed, especially in the North? Have many times have they been killed? Yet the Igbos return to the North regularly to live and build. I doubt if I have seen any ethnic group that will return to a place where they have been killed repeatedly and their property destroyed. It simply makes no sense.

What about the abandoned property policy in Rivers State after the Civil War that made Igbos lose their property? One would think that Igbos would never buy an inch of land in Rivers State. But not Igbos. If you go to Port Harcourt today and check the ownership of property from street to street, Igbos are in the majority. A cousin bought a house for 35 million naira in Port Harcourt recently. When he was asked if he was not afraid of losing it again to another abandoned property saga like it occurred to his father, he shrugged and said: "When we get to that bridge, we will cross it." His current concern was that he was tired of paying rent, which was increased every other year, and getting threatened with quit notice.

Among my family and close friends who have bought property in Lagos, many have lost their money to either fraud or omonile family squabbles. They would lick their wounds for a while and still save money again to buy land.

Why do Igbos like to buy lands? Many non-Igbos assume it is because they want to "take over other people's communities." That is far from the truth. Igbos are a proud people. They don't like "serving" others forever; so they strive to have their own house and be their own bosses.

Secondly, the Igbos are investment-driven. They have discovered that the most reliable investment that appreciates continuously in Nigeria is property. During recession in other countries, property prices fall, but in Nigeria they continue to soar. So Igbos go for it wherever they live, especially when it is cheap, so that in their old age they will have asset to take care of themselves and bequeath their children.

There is also a third point. The Igbos believe that only a leech gets nourishment from a place without contributing to the development of the source of that nourishment. The Igbos say: Ebe onye bi ka o na-awachi (One must develop and protect where one lives.)

Many times they pay rent for shop or house and lose the money via fraud or family tussle. Sometimes their shops are destroyed by government for one reason or the other. They lick their wounds and look for the next place to rent.

In spite of these losses, they don't create the narrative: "Lagos people defraud people". They see it as the risk human beings face in life. It does not deter them from seeing a new place to buy or rent in the same Lagos or wherever they are.

There is also a fallacy that other ethnic groups who don't know the Igbos have created and believed: that Igbos don't sell land to non-Igbos. A big, fat lie! Igbos are business-minded: they sell to the highest bidder. Once Igbos sell land and a goat is killed over it, it is sold forever. The blood of the goat is the covenant between the seller and the buyer.

If the reason the Northerners and Southwesterners give for not usually buying land en masse in Igboland is because Igbos don't sell to non-Igbos, how many Northerners or Southwesterners, for example, own property in Edo or Cross River or Akwa Ibom? Don't these non-Igbo states sell to non-indigenes too?

The fact is that there is too much caution and fear from most Nigerians about other parts of Nigeria. They believe that "something" may happen in future; so there is no need to risk their investment outside their region except it is in a central place like Abuja and Lagos. Many people who, for one reason or the other, find themselves in Igboland (working or doing businesses) usually prefer to leave their families in their home state because they believe that "something" may happen. As they make their money, they save it and take it back to their home state or region to invest.

But the Igbos don't act like that. That is why many think the Igbos are foolish. Can you blame them for thinking so? The Igbos sometimes act against the human belief in self-preservation.

The funniest part is that some Igbos would erect a duplex in their hometown, leave it uninhabited and go to Lagos or Abuja or Kano or a smaller town to live in an apartment that is worse than what they have at home.

It sounds crazy. But it is common among the Igbos.

It can only be found in the Igbo philosophy “a dighi ano otu ebe ekiri mmonwu”: One does not stay in one place to watch the masked spirit; or “mbughari ka e ji ere mbe” (the tortoise is sold by being taken round the market). It is like the Johnie Walker motto: Keep on walking. Don’t stay in your comfort zone.

The Igbos believe that the home is always saturated. One needs to move to other territories. The movement does not necessarily need to be out of Igboland.

Ironically, while Onitsha people are seeking greener pastures in other states, Nnewi people and other Igbos are making a killing in Onitsha. And while Nnewi people are looking for greener pastures in other lands, Enugu people have taken over most of the businesses in Nnewi, prospering and buying every available space there. It is like that across Igboland. Igbos always believe that their fortune is surer in a place outside their home.

Igbos are very competitive. They have no issue with visitors settling within their land. If the visitor can compete, he will succeed.

Igbos not only welcome visitors, they protect and defend them. It is a taboo to shed the blood of a stranger in Igboland. If the stranger becomes impossible, the community leaders will come together and ask the person to leave. But a stranger should never be hurt.

Those who have not lived in Igboland will find it difficult to believe, but Igbos treat strangers better than the indigenes. The visitors get favours the indigenes cannot get. The strangers get waivers that the indigenes cannot get.

And if a stranger, especially one that is from another ethnic group, settles in any part of Igboland, starts a business that employs people, builds his residence in Igboland, embarks on any form of community development, he is seen as great “brother” and he will most likely be given a chieftaincy title. Igbos cherish people who invest where they live and adopt where they live as home - people who don't stay aloof from their hosts. They would like you to bring in your kinsmen, bring in your home dance and culture, perform at their festivals, or create your own festivals - they would come out to watch and enjoy them. That simply tells them that you have made yourself a stakeholder in their community, not a parasite that only sucks and takes away.

Igbos are aggressive, highly competitive, proud, impatient, brash and noisy. Others find these traits irritating. But human beings are different, so also are ethnic groups. The Igbos have fought a war that destroyed everything they had. They received 20 pounds ex gratia after the war. Their property has been confiscated. For no clear reason, the federal government has not built projects in Igboland like it has done in other parts of Nigeria. They are faced with the Nigerian quota system that limits them. They have been killed many times and their businesses destroyed. They were even killed over a cartoon made in faraway Denmark which had no link with them. In spite of all these odds, they have succeeded. Naturally it makes them arrogant. Their thinking is: "In spite of all we have faced, we have succeeded. So what else can you do?" To them it is “confidence” and not arrogance.

Many find that trait annoying. I wish Igbos could groom themselves to operate wherever they are, especially outside their domain, without drawing attention to themselves. But you cannot change a people by fiat. It is like trying to teach the peacock not to be flamboyant.

We can only strive to understand one another in this country. Our deepest problem is that we don't even attempt to study and understand each other, so as to see why we all act the way we do as a people. Yet we stay hundreds of miles away from each other and make conclusions about others. We create stereotypes about others and spread them with the strongest conviction, infecting our children and grandchildren with such stereotypes. We judge others by our standards, seeing everything done differently from our way as bad. Only our way of life is good. When our brother does something bad, we single him out as bad, but when a person from another ethnic group does the same thing, we tar his entire ethnic group with the same brush.

We only see the bad sides of other ethnic groups even when each of our ethnic groups has a lot of good sides that can be learnt.
We assume that our ethnic group is the best, our ways the best, and our land the best.

But no ethnic group is better than the other. Each ethnic group simply has its own ways and standards. Those standards are not the standards of any other ethnic group.

That is the way life is. Sadly, only very few people know this. The vast majority believe in ethnic superiority, which has been the bane of Nigeria.

If you know you didn't to read that epistle, park here we have a meeting.

Igbos cant stop playing victim. Its in their soul. Talking about no FG support. Which state did the FG build markets for?? If Calabar state can develop Tinapa, the states govts in the east have no excuse but they’ll rather blame other Nigerians or the govt for their woes instead of sitting down to do a deep reflection.

I stopped reading at ‘igbos built Onitsha and Aba without govt support’. Obviously its the usual playing the victim that we now know igbos for.

Garbage.

StandardJohn:
If you know you didn't to read that epistle, park here we have a meeting.

I don't agree with the fact that the high cost of land in Igbo land is as a result of development. You have forgotten that south east generally is small in land mass and getting land in such a place will be very competitive and will also require you impressing the sellerby coughing out a huge sum of money as compared to regions where the land mass is huge.

This is so true about igbo is just that i don't know why we love traveling chia igbo can travel oh

Victim Olympics

Chris525:

I stopped reading at ‘igbos built Onitsha and Aba without govt support’. Obviously its the usual playing the victim that we now know igbos for.

Garbage.

Disprove it and stop whining. Your Lagos and Abuja were built by your corrupt government with money from Biafraland. Onitsha and Aba were indigenous built. FACT!!

Chris525:


Igbos cant stop playing victim. Its in their soul. Talking about no FG support. Which state did the FG build markets for?? If Calabar state can develop Tinapa, the states govts in the east have no excuse but they’ll rather blame other Nigerians or the govt for their woes instead of sitting down to do a deep reflection.

Shut up if you can't make sense!

Igbo apportion blame appropriately, no matter whose ox is gored.....no matter if you're too sensitive and emotional to take it!

'Igbos can't stop playing victim' indeed! Maybe the problem is you that can't stop sniffing around Igbo-themed threads!

Them don they fight each others above...... online bandits

BSsniffer:
Victim Olympics

Afonja slum candidate..u get mouth to talk bcux chukwudi don give una 100 naira so u fit eat that sawad soup called ewedu.

Chris525:


Igbos cant stop playing victim. Its in their soul. Talking about no FG support. Which state did the FG build markets for?? If Calabar state can develop Tinapa, the states govts in the east have no excuse but they’ll rather blame other Nigerians or the govt for their woes instead of sitting down to do a deep reflection.

Oga
Read first before commenting

This article is very well written and very rich.

So, Yep! I'm Igbo but I can't understand Igbo -at all.

But, one thing I can understand from this article, is that the very nature of the Igbo easily makes them THE air in Nigeria's lungs.
This is the point being made by those who argue that Nigeria is indivisible, and it is not easy to refute due to what these Igbo people are doing.

Had Igbo settled and developed only Igboland, perhaps it would be easier for the rest of the country to allow them to leave, because they would disrupt little. But that is not what we have, sadly.

If you remove the Igbo from Nigeria, the country will simply asphyxiate (basically die from lack of oxygen).
That is why, to those in the know, any talk of Igbo leaving Nigeria is akin to taking the oxygen tank from a frogman while in the bottom of the sea!

It makes them go berserk with rage, as if someone is about to steal their life.

What baffle me most is why such people can't acknowledge such simple truth.
They still do gra gra as if they can survive without the Igbo.
I'm sure that if those Nigerians tell Igbo directly that the country cannot survive without them, and appeal to their humanity and sense of brotherhood, Igbo people are emotional and will likely reconsider leaving Nigeria.

But that would never happen in Nigeria! lai lai

bomb24:


Afonja slum candidate..u get mouth to talk bcux chukwudi don give una 100 naira so u fit eat that sawad soup called ewedu.

Eat shit.

Chris525:


Igbos cant stop playing victim. Its in their soul. Talking about no FG support. Which state did the FG build markets for?? If Calabar state can develop Tinapa, the states govts in the east have no excuse but they’ll rather blame other Nigerians or the govt for their woes instead of sitting down to do a deep reflection.

Why talking out of point??

Even after reading, you still fail to comprehend.

You are all over the place without the understanding laying emphasis on"" victims"

Was the post about "victims " or whatever?

Why are you full of pains? What has the writer said that is making you flipp out convulsed.

Anyway, the writer made reference to people like you who lack simple comprehension.

PROUDIGBO:


Shut up if you can't make sense!

Igbo apportion blame appropriately, no matter whose ox is gored.....no matter if you're too sensitive and emotional to take it!

'Igbos can't stop playing victim' indeed! Maybe the problem is you that can't stop sniffing around Igbo-themed threads!

Igbos cant stop playing victim

Amd thats why they are so foolishly involved in revisionism and think the rest of us are fools

By the way...ibos voted 90% for pdp for 16 years and refused to ask for infrastructure.....isnt that the height of foolishness?
Forgot to even ask for a second niger bridge for 16 years, forgot to ask for a power plant for the east in 16 years of slavery when pdp was building power plants all over the country?
Forgot to ask that the enugu onitsha highway be fixed im 16 years of slavery

Maybe you people better leave politics and face business squarely.....you are very bad politicians

Balancing act of complex and victim mentality.

Stupid story. Igbo no get land, period. Niger Delta stolen oil money developed Onitsha and Aba and Lagos and Abuja. Oil theft is what everyone is feeding on. Zero productivity in Nigeria since independence.

Chris525:

I stopped reading at ‘igbos built Onitsha and Aba without govt support’. Obviously its the usual playing the victim that we now know igbos for.

Garbage.

take your time and read the article and stop hating. Can you tell me one federal government project in Igbo land please ?

Chris525:

I stopped reading at ‘igbos built Onitsha and Aba without govt support’. Obviously its the usual playing the victim that we now know igbos for.

Garbage.

I think he is right. Government focuses more on state capitals. Aba and onitsha are not state capitals, destroyed during the wars and both cities are still prospering. In my state, you see only development in ibadan, other parts of the state are being neglected. Ogbomoso, oyo,saki, iseyin have little Government presence and they are ancient towns.
Akure is more developed than ondo and owo. Osogbo is more developed than ife, ede and ilesha.
In ogun, Abeokuta is more developed than ijebu ode.
Both onitsha and aba are more developed than state capitals- akwa and umuahia respectively.

Onitsha & Aba more developed than Akwa & Umuahia? Definitely you’ve never left Lagos. You think population is development.

The Osogbo that is more developed than Ife is it the FG that is developing it or the state? Is FG responsible for developing Ede, Ogbomoso etc.?

joyandfaith:

I think he is right. Government focuses more on state capitals. Aba and onitsha are not state capitals, destroyed during the wars and both cities are still prospering. In my state, you see only development in ibadan, other parts of the state are being neglected. Ogbomoso, oyo,saki, iseyin have little Government presence and they are ancient towns.
Akure is more developed than ondo and owo. Osogbo is more developed than ife, ede and ilesha.
In ogun, Abeokuta is more developed than ijebu ode.
Both onitsha and aba are more developed than state capitals- akwa and umuahia respectively.

FG is not responsible for developing your markets. Look inward. Challenge the state government. Look for something else to drag Buhari for. This is senseless.

At this rate, Igbos will start asking Buhari to come and settle rift with your wives. Nonsense.

Danjikanbauchi:
take your time and read the article and stop hating. Can you tell me one federal government project in Igbo land please ?

Chris525:

Onitsha & Aba more developed than Akwa & Umuahia? Definitely you’ve never left Lagos. You think population is development.

The Osogbo that is more developed than Ife is it the FG that is developing it or the state? Is FG responsible for developing Ede, Ogbomoso etc.?

Onitsha is more developed than awka just as aba is more develpoed than umuahia.
Thank God apart from Enugu, Ebonyi, CRS,Akwa ibom and Bayelsa, i have been in every state in the southern Nigeria.
State capitals normally host parastatats and ministries for federal and state governments. Osogbo benefits from both FG and SG.

Being to every state doesn’t mean you know what it is. You claim capitals benefit from SG & FG which is true, then you say Onitsha & Aba which are literally market areas and not capitals are more developed. Its funny considering how dirty and stinky most Nigerian markets are baring a few in Lagos like BBA.

joyandfaith:

Onitsha is more developed than awka just as aba is more develpoed than umuahia.
Thank God apart from Enugu, Ebonyi, CRS,Akwa ibom and Bayelsa, i have been in every state in the southern Nigeria.
State capitals normally host parastatats and ministries for federal and state governments. Osogbo benefits from both FG and SG.

Chris525:


Igbos cant stop playing victim. Its in their soul. Talking about no FG support. Which state did the FG build markets for?? If Calabar state can develop Tinapa, the states govts in the east have no excuse but they’ll rather blame other Nigerians or the govt for their woes instead of sitting down to do a deep reflection.

I wish you’re educated, because being a semi-illiterate is a total ball game.

Because without the following infrastructures built by Federal Government Lagos would be another Ibadan.
1. Bridges
2. Sea Port
3. Airport
4. Roads
5. Military Installations
6. Stadiums
7. Even government house

Chris525:

Being to every state doesn’t mean you know what it is. You claim capitals benefit from SG & FG which is true, then you say Onitsha & Aba which are literally market areas and not capitals are more developed. Its funny considering how dirty and stinky most Nigerian markets are baring a few in Lagos like BBA.

It takes community efforts to build and develop cities. Onitsha and Aba are typical examples. Government presence makes most state capitals develop than other cities in the states. Onitsha and Aba are just exceptions.
Anyway, See my signature

louqas:


Igbos cant stop playing victim

Amd thats why they are so foolishly involved in revisionism and think the rest of us are fools

By the way...ibos voted 90% for pdp for 16 years and refused to ask for infrastructure.....isnt that the height of foolishness?
Forgot to even ask for a second niger bridge for 16 years, forgot to ask for a power plant for the east in 16 years of slavery when pdp was building power plants all over the country?
Forgot to ask that the enugu onitsha highway be fixed im 16 years of slavery

Maybe you people better leave politics and face business squarely.....you are very bad politicians

You schmucks are worse than just fools....you're evil fools!

Dude, the only revisionists are bigoted bastards like you that despise a people you can never measure up to, not even in a million years! You try to revise history to justify your hate and wickedness, but as they say....lies run sprints, but truth runs marathons and will always outlast lies!

Just take a look at your miserable and pathetic country Nigeria today! Haven't Ndigbo been proven right in their choices at the end of the day by all the shit that's going on? What Ndigbo see sitting down, hateful bigots like you can't see even if you climb Mt Everest!

When talking of Igbos 'voting 90% for PDP for 16 years and REFUSED to ask for infrastructure', you talk as if PDP was made up of just Igbos...or that we had controlling say on how things were to be done! PDP was formed by the power-brokers of 'one Nigeria' (the muslim core north) to foist someone they were comfortable with (a Yoruba man, OBJ) on the rest of Nigeria! How was that the fault of Ndigbo? For the 16 years of the PDP, it had membership from the three main ethnicities in Nigeria, so why the fck do you imply that just 'Igbos refused asking for infrastructure' for the 16 years the party was in power?

We fought a uncivil war to try and extricate ourselves from a country that wasn't working for us anymore, and you shed blood of millions of Biafrans to bring us back into 'one Nigeria'.....a country in which you were now solely calling the shots (having edged the 'inyamurees' out of contention), ably assisted and supported by the Yoruba! Ndigbo were now made to follow the programme for national development and politics written by the core north military/clerical/entrepreneurial/traditional hegemony! That programme is what we're still following till today, yet you somehow think Ndigbo actually have a say in the matter to the point of forcing the hands of the ruling hegemony to be fair and balanced in their approach to national infrastrutural development and politics! It's a known fact that you see us as a 'conquered' people, yet you now pretend we've had the power and had a say in how infrastructure is distributed throughout the country!

In any case, if you've been listening to the sentiments expressed by the average Igbo, you'd have noticed our disenchantment with our politicians at the national and state level! We realise we are, at best, marginal players in power-play of Nigerian partisan-politics and governance since 1999. A power-play that has seen either the Fulani or Yoruba at the top of the totem pole....as has been the case since the end of the uncivil war in 1970! Part of your wicked revisionism is trying to sell the narrative that Ndigbo have had a equal place at the table with the Fulani and Yoruba...which we all know is not true! That being said, we however do expect our policticians to voice their opposition to ceratin actions/inactions and policies of the party and gov't they claim to be part of....even if they can't determine or force the policy direction of gov't at any point in time! We saw this play out in the PDP years (probably this is what you're capitalising on to say Ndigbo sat back during the PDP years as infrastructure was denied them), and things have presently gotten worse with the inaction and dumbness of our politicians in the party and gov't of the ruling APC today! Today, a single state, Katsina, has seen more attention from the hateful, greedy and anti-Igbo Buhari gov't than the entire south-east region put together! You wouldn't say anything about that because it doesn't suit the wicked agenda and narrative you're trying to sell!

You may not have been listening (maybe you blocked your ears), but Ndigbo expressed their anger and dissapointment at the lack of movement on the issue of the 2nd Niger bridge during the PDP years! GEJ who promised his gov't would build it before he leaves office (he probably thought he had his 2nd term in the bag), only started its construction in the last year of his first term (i think) and paid 30 billion naira for JB to begin work! GEJs inaction on the matter wasn't borne out of malevolence, vindictiveness and hate for Igbos (as is the case with the present Buhari gov't).....he was distracted with trying to win over the core north muslims with an eye on getting re-elected in 2015! We all know how that went! I strongly believe that bridge would have been done and dusted by now had GEJ won his re-election! However, Buhari came into office in 2015, and immediately had construction works on the bridge stopped....only to have it restarted few moths to the 2019 elections so dickheads like you can point to something he's doing for Ndigbo that shows he's 'fair and balanced' to all! Bullshit! As Buhari stopped work on the 2nd Niger bridge in 2015, he allowed works to continue on infrastructural projects in his own region, like the Kaduna-Abuja rail and the new int'l terminal at Kano airport, and also upgraded kaduna airport to int'l status at the speed of light (the excuse given was that they needed a alternative airport for Abuja int'l that was closed at the time for runway reconstruction)! Meanwhile, till today, he has stopped work on the int'l terminal for AIIA in Enugu while the one in Kano is done and dusted!

I don't know why you're mentioning the Enugu-Onitsha expressway, because as we speak both the Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-Port Harcourt expressways haven't been fixed....this is more than 6 years into the two-year term of you 'fair and balanced god' that you would have us believe is the best thing to happen to Ndigbo since the invention of sliced bread!

You Igbos will never accept a fault that points at you. African Israelites, you can never be wrong, delusional dimwits.

Look at the rate at which Ebonyi is developing. Ebonyi gets one of the lowest FG allocations yet see how fast the state is moving. How many things did FG do for them? Go and read up about the giant strides they’re making. Imagine if all of that is replicated in all the south eastern states by their governors? Be there waiting for FG or Buhari.

Is it the FG that is constructing the Lekki FTZ? The Lekki airport? etc? Did the FG construct Ikoyi link bridge? Is the FG financing the 4th mainland bridge? Is the FG responsible for the inland waters ways? Are they the ones who brought free education that rapidly educated the SW? Was it the FG that constructed Cocoa house in Ibadan or the first radio station? Was it the FG that constructed Jakande housing estates in Lagos? Or was it the FG that constructed the Teslim Balogun stadium?

Be there looking for excuses while others are developing rapidly. After you will come and cry of marginalization. Ode. Even Abia that is governed by a Ph.D holder looks like an Alaba importer would probably have done better. Instead of sitting yourselves down to ask yourselves pertinent questions.

Almost all your ex-governors have been tried for one corrupt cases or another. From the time of Mbadinuju till now. You’re excited addressing someone who could probably buy you as a slave if you were up for sale as for a semi-literate. You no fear

Asking me what government has done for the east. The electricity and federal roads that lead to your mud house villages na your papa get am Is there any other state in the south that has enjoyed anything special from the FG more than the SE besides Lagos and this is deserved as it is more or less our gateway to the world.

Get the fvck out of my face my friend. I’m not in your league. You’re too dumb for my liking.

ImmaculateSpenc:



I wish you’re educated, because being a semi-illiterate is a total ball game.

Because without the following infrastructures built by Federal Government Lagos would be another Ibadan.
1. Bridges
2. Sea Port
3. Airport
4. Roads
5. Military Installations
6. Stadiums
7. Even government house

Please if you are Igbo there certain threads you shouldn't give a fuvck about..

Just let it die a natural death is as simple as that.

Why these igbo people like to play victim like this? one even said lagos was developed with stolen funds from Biafra. Should I remind you fűcktards dat there's nothing like Biafra? In other to look more realistic and less deluded, you should've said south south, since south east is useless and have never offered anything to this zoo. You people should quietly take south east and fůck the hell outta here. Stop tagging south south into Biafra