Mostly, political intrigues of the North throughout the period president Yar’adua was sick and his subsequent death on 5th May 2010, showed that the north are unwilling to relinquish power to the South. As soon as Goodluck was sworn in as executive president, the ill-will became worse. The incessant bomb blast and killings of hundreds of Nigerians by the same faceless Boko Haram are ways of venting their anger. They want Goodluck to resign out of fear and frustration; or even die so that the 2nd in authority- their own person will take over (thanks for Sambo’s understanding.) Meanwhile, the north complained of everything including mass poverty and marginalization as the causes of their grievances. But they forget they have men that could have transformed their region into the DUBAI of Nigeria, and food basket of Africa having produced more military Heads of states and civilian presidents than the South. The north also forgets that they control the highest number of states, only five states in the South East, all the zones in the north have six states each, and North West with seven states, still nobody is complaining. If it were them, they will cry foul.

The North could boast of 300 barons who could comfortably donate about N100m, our oil money each to ensure that the North becomes a master-piece, instead they devote their attention to ostentatious living, women, and money laundering. When these men will be useful is anytime a non-northerner becomes president, then they will be used as weapons of destruction (Sixtus Ezennaya).

Furthermore, the northerners are too subtle and wicked, they accepted through Gowon the issue of confederation at Aburi but back home the northerners advised Gowon never to agree with the issue of confederation if he loves his life. Had it been that confederation was upheld, there wouldn’t have been any problem, the Biafran’s would have at wish pulled out of Nigeria. Such was the case with Senegal and Gambia (SeneGambia under confederation) and Sudan with South Sudan. Today each of these countries are independent countries. More to the northern subtleness and wickedness is the fact that they kept quiet when Yar’Adua-their own was in power. But immediately Jonathan came in, Boko Haram, brutal killings and destructions came in. This is a way of telling the Igbos and Southerners that we are not part of Nigeria. What then will happen when a core Igbo man becomes president of this country? This time, it is not going to be war, because we are not afraid of that neither will it be killings, because we are not new to that; nor will it be Boko Haram and their bombings, we are used to that. It may be genocide likened to that of Hitler where over 6 million Jews were exterminated. So the earlier we stay on our own the better, otherwise we will all perish.

The political tension in Nigeria has continued to raise dusts by a few notches who feel that the country is their property. This is consequent to what political analysts regarded as a provocative and unguarded statement from General Buhari, a former military Head of State. Buhari, a candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in April 14, 2011 presidential election won by Jonathan was reported to have told members of his party who visited him in Kaduna on May 14, 2012, that “there would be soaked in blood should the 2015 general elections be rigged”. Look at such a conclusive and unpatriotic statement from a mortal who cannot manufacture a single hair on his head:-

It is unfortunate and shameful that such a verbose statement, which many critics tagged treasonable came from a former Head of State who would not have taken it lightly if anybody had made such when he was in power. Perhaps, the greatest disdain he exhibited after that statement was the challenge he threw to president Jonathan to arrest him and face the consequences of his action. Such arrogance has confirmed the negative public perception of Buhari as a man with a mindset that he is untouchable and above the law. His critics argue passionately that with such a mindset, it would be very dangerous to give him political power which he would surely abuse and turn himself into a dictator, probably the Charles Taylor of Nigeria, or even Islamizing the country.

There are those including Buhari, who still believe that the rulership of the country is the exclusive right of people from a particular section of Nigeria. As far as they are concerned, the emergence of any other person outside them would be an anathema. Even before the elections, they had vowed to make the country ungovernable if Jonathan became president? That was the actual reason behind the spontaneous violence which greeted and has been greeting the declaration of Jonathan as the winner of the April, 14 2011 presidential election in some states in the north. The violence which started as a political Boko Haram has now assumed religious and criminal dimensions (Mike Akpan.) And there is no doubt people like Buhari and his cohorts are the brain behind the Boko Haram quagmire.

As we have celebrated a century of amalgamation, it should be regarded by every true Igbo man as an inauguration of Igbo nation. Those Igbo topshots in the military, Navy, Airforce, Police and other institutions, open your eyes to this issue. Let us stop romancing the devil as every Igbo man no matter where he/she finds him/herself is simply eating crumbs from the master’s table (whether believed or not.) The glaring and bitter truth is that the Igbos are not safe in this so-called Nigeria. At least we have tried in living with enemies for a hundred years.

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