NDIGBO 2023: SERIES TWO
AN APPEAL TO NATIONAL CONSCIENCE
“We are zoning to zone the unzoned, surmounting the surmountable.”
- Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe, a Nigerian politician and statesman.
UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL (vigilance-securitymagazine.com), accessed: 06/02/2022.
General Elections 2015: Lest we forget, Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 49 years (vigilance-securitymagazine.com), accessed: 24/01/2022.
General Elections 2015: Lest we forget, Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for 49 years (scorpionnewscorp.com), accessed: 24/01/2022.
2019: The danger that lies ahead, but what time is it in Ndigbo's Political Calendar having not ruled Nigeria for 49 years? (vigilance-securitymagazine.com), accessed: 24/01/2022.
PART 34) OF THE FOOLS OF THE SOUTH AND THE MIDDLE BELT…THERE WILL BE WAR AGAIN, BUT A DIFFERENT WAR
(PART 34): Porous borders and national security in times of national emergency and unparalleled adversity
“Our flag shall be a symbol
That truth and justice reign…One Country, One People, One Destiny, One God
Series: Unity in Diversity
“…. sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Mummy, when you get back to Nigeria, tell my people to remain one in unity. Tell Nigerians to remain one in love, tell my Plateau people that they must remain one. Tell my people to imbibe unity, peace and love."
- - The last words of Chief Daushep Solomon Lar, through his wife, Mary Lar to his Plateau people, the Middle Belters and Nigerians in general.
THE BIG BANG: DON'T LET IT BANG! DON'T LET IT SCATTER!
“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
THE RUMBLE AND THE THUNDER NEXT TIME…THE PHILISTINES ARE COMING AGAIN
Ndigbo 2023 Presidential Project (NPP2023/N2023PP)
"And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken."
- Ecclesiastes 4:12.
John Odey Aduma, The Author of the just released bestseller: BE A BEAKON OF HOPE IN THE WORLD: A MESSAGE TO YOUNG BRITAIN.
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2023: HOW A VERY DETERMINED, DYNAMIC, POSSITIVELY AGGRESSIVE, HARDWORKING, CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE, IMAGINATIVE, AND INVENTIVE PEOPLE HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN THEIR DUES IN THEIR COUNTRY……
NDIGBO’S MOST IMPORTANT PITCH IN THEIR QUEST TO SERVE THE NATION IN THE PRESIDENCY
Ndigbo kwenu! Ndigbo kwenu! Ndigbo kwenu!
Zik: There is no landmark of corruption in Zungeru or in Onitsha.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe: One of Nigeria’s pre-eminent and supra-nationalists of the earlier generation, whose Nigerianess undoubtedly surpassed his Igboness. Benjy Boy was Nigerian, spirit, soul, and body!
Ironsi:
The is no landmark of corruption at Ibeku.
Major-General Johnson Umunakwe Agu-Ironsi (Ironside): Unarguably, no Nigerian has had the most ideological influence in Government and on governance in Nigeria like Ironside. Killed because of Ironsism (Unitarism), but that ideology has continued to rule, define governments and governance in Nigeria since 1966 the very present and perhaps, beyond (will) remain the fulcrum, superstructure and corner stone of governance in Nigeria.
Johnny was the last Igbo to be in the nation’s national driver seat since July 15th, 1966!
THE INAUGURATION OF KLEPTOCRACY AND THE SUBSEQUENT EMERGENCE OF PLUTOCRACY IN GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA, FROM 1966 TILL THE PRESENT
Unparalleled Obsession for Appearances, Ephemerality, the Dumbing- Down of Values, Standards and Professionalism within the Nigerian System -
Better a “mere desk clerk” than an unaccounted for, and an undeserved wealth acquired by robbing the people; better “a mere desk clerk” than having mansions and castles on the hills and mountains tops built for one by major foreign construction companies, courtesy of gross abuse of office and power; better “a mere desk clerk” than sharing public utilities amongst oneself and the privileged few in the name of privatization exercise; better “a mere desk clerk” than having mango farms of 2, 420 hectares of land (THE OBASANJONIZATION/YORUBANIZATION OF BENUE/NIGERIA…what a Saint – shio-o!), banks and hotels all over the nations of the world through defrauding the people as military Generals/IGPs/top level civil servants and former Presidents; better “a mere desk clerk” than mindless lootings of public treasuries and stashing the contents thereof abroad; better “a mere desk clerk” than having a Presidential Library ( THE BLACK RACE’S INFAMOUS, MOST SHAMEFUL AND EMBARRASSING LANDMARK OF CORRUPTION) through defrauding the people and Governments – undoubtedly a bare face robbery!
It is a great honour and a matter of unparalleled integrity that the two sons of Igbo – Benjamin (Benny) Nnamdi Azikiwe (ceremonial President) and Ironside Johnson Umunakwe Agui-Ironsi (Military Head of State) never enriched themselves like Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida and wife Maryam (Ogbomosho – but whatever happened to all the money collected from the public for the so-called Better Life for Rural Dwellers Projects– just sign boards inside bushes and forests in most cases!); Sani Abacha (Kanuri), that world’s most notorious looter and wife, Mariam, both notorious looters and gamblers of the national economy; Abdulsalami Abubakar (Kanuri, that fake peacemaker and ANANIAS OF MINA – man whose ‘toilet paper’ has been fuelling religious war, turning Nigeria into THE FIELD OF BLOOD); Olusegun Obasanjo, the self-proclaimed/appointed Messiah of the Black race; pretentious jihadi Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua and the his wife, the very intensely ambitious Turai’s N6.8 billion unaccounted for Cancer Centre; Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and his thieving La-di-dah wife, Patience (Ijaw – profligate Jonathan) and Rehoboam Hitler Muhammadu Buhari (the Herod of Daura) and his epicurean and image-obsessed wife, Aisha (the modern Northern woman who refused to be chained to the other room and caged in the kitchen), alias, MAMA FRAGRANCE, not different in any least way to the post-2nd Republic so-called First Ladies) – all their thieving and looting enterprises at the expense of the Nigerian people.
EXPOSED! THE REAL PROBLEMS OF NIGERIA ARE THE FULANIS, THE ARABS, THE HAUSAS, KANURIS, THE SHUWA ARABS, THE YORUBAS AND THE IJAWS
A Call to National Self-Examination:
However, unlike the above thieves and crooks together with their so-called First Lady wives, history will look favourably at the two Nigerian leaders of Ndigbo extraction, including their wives, the two Vs – other loved ones and friends of theirs nor did they in any way like these others, enrich generations of their families to the 1000th G – whether already born or unborn generations of all their family members -,children and grandchildren, wives, cronies friends and made all of them trillionaires, billionaires and millionaires whilst yet in their teens, twenties, thirties and forties, even the unborn ones before they were formed in the foetuses nor did have private jets with money stolen from the Nigerian people nor any oil money disappeared and later traced to them either whilst in/out of office nor did they corner documents and materials given to them by foreign governments/nations, individuals, NGOs/INGOs in their official capacity as Presidents to their private libraries – Presidential or otherwise, etc, etc.
Nor did both Zik and Ironside build airstrips for their private/presidential jets landing at Zungeru/Onitsha or Ibeku nor have a state capital sited in their wives’ birth places as Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida did for his wife, Maryam Babangida nor have Fortes built in their birthplaces, named variously as Forte Zik or Forte Ironsi like Mahdi Muhammadu Buhari nor construct or ever thought of constructing a Railway Line from their Geopolizone/birthplaces, linking them to a foreign country, say Cameroon or Gabon as Muhammadu Buhari is planning to do, constructing the Kano-Maradi Line, otherwise called JIHADI LINE or BOKO LINE by this writer. To hell with all the DAN AMALA/MALARIA/OMICRON of this world!
JOHN ADUMA’S ARITHMETIC OF POLITICS & IDENTITY POLITICS IN NIGERIA, EARLIEST TIMES TILL THE PRESENT
THE NORTH’S POLITICAL DISSECTION OF CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHI…ANOTHER BUGUBUGU (YALA, FOR DECEPTION) IN THE OFFING
The Dan Amana’s (Politically Analysed) Tetradic Identity (DATI/DAPATI):
- Cultural and Linguistic Identity (CLI) – Chibuike (Ndigbo/Igbo, South East, aiming to hide/bury his (Ubima) Ikwerre original/primary identity and politically packaging and presenting him as Igbo, SE).
- Nomenclatural and Appellational Identity (NAI) – Rotimi (Yoruba, South West.
- Geographic/al Identity (GI) – South South
- Identity by Faith or Religion (Faith Identity or Religious Identity (IF/FI or RI) – Christian (Christianity).
So, with this Tysonian or killer punch from the North (Fulani, Hausa, Kanuri, Shuwa Arabs and the Arabs), how will Nigerians, South, again argue that their yearning and aspiration to take the baton of power from the North in 2023 have not materialized - been met or realised?
In the major work, whilst in my theory of Identity Politics (IP), other identities such as occupational or professional, micropolitics identity (grass roots), elites, military, the police, trades, womenfolk, menfolk, class, etc, have been identified, it is worth having it at the back of the reader’s mind that the North’s identity politics experiment in/with Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s supposed triple identities failed abysmally.
It was reckoned by the ruling house of Uthman Dan Foduye (GIDA USUMAN DAN FODUYE) that his appellational, cultural and geographic or poligeozonal or geopolizonal (political) identities would camouflage him as Igbo, but the ubiquitous and the outspokenness of the Ijaw elements – ethnic nationalists/irridentists/jingoists in and around Nigeria, especially at the corridor of power – the Presidency, beat the North to a retreat, making them scampering away and abandoning that hidden agenda of theirs with their tails in between their legs, even though, systemically and structurally, they remained in GEJ’s and as in other Governments before his, the power pivot within the power calculus in Nigeria, and within the Nigerian Federation, even THE NIBE FEDERATION!
THE DATI PACKAGING IN BRIEF & THE MAKING OF IDENTITY POLITICS
Vote One, Get Four Inside – VOGFI, where VO = G4(I).
Thus, the nation is hereby seriously warned again to be wise in the choice of the next President if we are to have a country going forward to call our own.
BE WARNED, ALL YOU ANTI-NIGERIAN, ANTI-UNITY, ANTI-JUSTICE, ANTI-FAIR PLAY, ANTI-PEACE AND ANTI-ZONING
Kwenskwently (Consequently), neither the SS nor SW nor Nokbekwara nor NE nor NW POLIGEOZONES as the next President of Nigeria, but the SE GEOPOLIZONE – and all those already pushing for DAN AMALA OF DAURA to be the next President of Nigeria for obsequiously serving very well at GIDA USUMANU DAN FODUYE as the ORIGINAL, MOST FAITHFUL AND RELIABLE ABEED thereat, and stupidly backing the DAN MALARIA OF DAURA/DAN OMICRON OF DAURA against national balance, equality, justice, fairness, universal altruism and national peace that surpasses all understanding must be made aware that he is neither SEtern nor SWtern as his magomago (deceptive) names seem to portray him.
THE IMMORTAL EXEMPLARINESS OF ZIK AND IRONSI IN MORAL, POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN SERVICE & STEWARDSHIP TO THE NATION
Yet again, unlike IBB, Abdulsalami, Obasanjo, Jonathan and Buhari, it is not on record that either of them built airports in their own home state or birthplaces nor built a Transport University therein nor did either ever like Abdulsalami Abubakar ground economic activities because either was about to land at this airport/s, returning from the now so-called medical vacation in a foreign land, only to not show up on the scheduled day, thus wasting time, energy, precious resources and taking away thousands of security personnel of beats/frontlines!
Except that most Nigerians do not know about or care to fight for their rights coupled with the fact that institutions in Nigeria having been deliberately weakened to serve the fragile egos of the nation’s ruling elites, making their heads - MDs/CEOs/DGs to quiver like bedraggled rabbits under the rains and shaking perpetually like reeds before the General Abubakars of this world and their ilk, the Aviation Authority in Nigeria and individuals who were affected by that economic sabotage of General Abubakar in closing down the Minna Airport, worse, failing to turn up as scheduled, thereby grounding all economic activities to a halt, consequently, losing billions of pounds because of one man who is no longer a Government functionary having left office as a MHoS+G since May 29, 1999, can yet sue him.
“General Abdulsalami returns from medical trip abroad
By John Adams, Minna
There was heavy security presence at the Minna airport yesterday morning when former head of state, General Abdulsalami A. Abubakar (Rtd), returned to Minna, the Niger State capital, after a medical trip abroad that lasted for three months.
The security build up at the airport began Friday evening when the entire airport was condoned off by security agents in anticipation of his arrival but was later postponed till yesterday morning.
However, by 7:00am, the security personnel returned to the airport and ordered everybody out of the airport as they took strategic positions.
Apart from very few vehicles belonging to close family members, journalists and other non-accredited members of the public were not allowed into the airport as security personnel politely told everybody, “nobody is allowed to go in please.”
At exactly 9.33 am a Nigeria Air Force plane with registration No. 5Nfgv conveying the former head of state and 12 others touched down at the Minna International airport.
Among those on board with him were his wife, Hajiya Fati Lami Abubakar, his daughter and wife of the state governor, Dr. Amina Sani Bello and other family members.
Contrary to the rumour of his deteriorating health condition, Sunday Sun gathered that the former head of state looked hale and hearty, and in good spirit.
He was driven straight to his uphill mansion from the airport about 9:58am after a brief exchange of pleasantries with few family members who were on hand to welcome him back.
The former head of state departed the country for London sometime in June for medical treatment. Prior to his safe return, his health status had been a subject of discussion in the state in recent time.
Source and Credit: General Abdulsalami returns from medical trip abroad – The Sun Nigeria (sunnewsonline.com), accessed: 07/02/2022.
INSECURITY IN NIGERIA: THE HYPOCRISY OF THE RETIRED GENERALS, IGPS, OTHER HIGH-RANKING MILITARY, PARA-MIITARY AND POLICE OFFICERS, MONARCHS AND OTHER ELITES, INCLUDING THE RULING ELITES
See who always cries about insecurity in the country – Slimy Salamy and his ilk, of course!
Just how many battalions of soldiers, other military personnel and the police are attending to Olu Obasanjo, IBB, Abdulsalami, GEJ, Gowon, emirs, Obas, elected reps and senators, other monarchs across the country, Nigerian elites – whether ruling or not, other VIPs, blue-chip companies, other lesser companies – their MDs/CEO, even local Government Chairmen/Chairpersons and their spouses, aides, Governors’ aides, Presidential aides, state commissioners, their wives/husbands and families, special assistants, friends and cronies – yet these are the people who like the wicked/evil village cock are the first to cock-ado-do-lo-do-o- doo (!) - cock-a-doodle-doo – about the pervasive insecurity in the unholy hours of days and nights, 24/7!
SEE, IN ALL IBEKU, ZUNGERU/ONITSHA, THERE ARE NO LANDMARKS OF CORRUPTION AS IN ABEOKUTA, MINNA, KANO, OTUKE, ETC
There are no LANDMARKS OF CORRUPTION traceable to these two Ndigbo illustrious sons, whilst such abound in Kano, Minna, Abeokuta, Otuoke, etc, etc!
What is more, neither Victoria Azikiwe nor Victoria Ironsi ever launched any private Foundations or newsletters in the name of books biographies/autobiographies and gathered public money to the tune of N150 million for their own personal uses during their times as First Ladies of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
The two former First Ladies of Ndigbo extraction were not known to have indulged in any vanity (fair) such as those after them have done - shopping or actually relocating from Nigeria to Dubai as MAMA DUBAI did!
But can the present generation of Ndigbo continue with this Ndigboan principles, virtues, honesty, integrity, accountability, and stewardship as tenants in the Presidency - that exalted and hallowed office; only for the exalted minds, but now desecrated by the likes of Muhammadu Buhari and those before him from other ethnic nationalities?
WHAT IS WAR?
THE LICENCE TO BE ROTTEN FOR THE SAKE OF NATIONAL UNITY TO DRIVE HOME MY PATRIOTIC MESSAGE TO THE PRE-WAR GENERATION OF NDIGBO…BUT WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: SECESSION OR NATIONHOOD?
- Edward Everett
All young Nigerians of Ndigbo extraction born after the Nigerian-Biafran civil war must here be made aware that for a sub-national polity to want to break away from the national polity is not tantamount to a man putting prick inside a woman’s toto to remove it at will.
Separating from a national polity will come at a very huge cost of another war, more serious, deadlier and more ferocious than the first war, leading to almost a total annihilation of the whole of Ndigbo, making room for the Fulanis to within 24 hours swarm the whole of the South East Geopolizone with their brethren from far and near – the 33 African countries where the Fulanis can be found.
Therefore, che Onwata Ndigbo! Onwata Ndigbo che!
Still, war is not about love making where a man puts his JOHN THOMAS inside a woman’s vagina and thrust it forward and backward with the two-two of them - man and woman cry out like dogs doing the thing openly at the village arena in the full glare of the excited village onlookers.
Again, war is not about a woman sitting naked on top of a man lying naked with his back to the ground/bed, closing his eyes in the heat of the orgasm, enjoying himself as the king of sex, whilst the woman labour to thrust up and down to pleasure her king as she screams and pants for breath joyously to please the Eze of the exercise, but it is war, and nothing else, but war; and that is why it is not called anything else, but W-A-R…war!
Again, che onwata! Onwata che! Che, Ndigbo! Ndigbo, che!
But before you all hold the federal Government to account, for the avalanche of injustices, which is undoubtedly the right thing to do, Ndigbo as the saying goes: charity begins at home, must ask to render account, all their sons and daughters, some of them now dead, but whose children/family who have inherited their ill-gotten wealth (DIRTY WEALTH) are still alive for all the monies they had collected on behalf of their people from successive Governments since the war ended for one development project or another – infrastructure – construction of roads, security votes, etc.
INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN NIGERIA
The question I have been asking since my days as Head of Property and Environment at the Punch is: why is it that major construction and other development projects in the North, South West and elsewhere in Nigeria are given to major construction companies, but those of the South East are given to individual Igbo, who at all times would pocket the money after having cleared forests, graded the roads and sand filled it with red soil which they know would be washed off at the first rainfall after the so-called tarring of such roads?
Would the mercantilist separatists would beam their searchlight on their thieving kinsmen and women before jumping about hurling stones and missiles at those in Aso Rock (Nigerian Presidency)?
IF TRUTH MUST BE TOLD AND NOT PERPETUALLY BURIED IN THE ASH HEAP OF HISTORY…NDIGBO’S DOMINATION OF SOME SUB-SECTORS OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY
ND/IGBOCONOMICS, NDIGBOCONOMY AND ND/IGBOPOLY
Whilst virtually all Nigerians and the world over are united in their condemnation of the injustices that some Ndigbo have continued to experience in a country that they are supposed to be co-owners and heirs/heiresses, it must not be lost on all of us to point out to Ndigbo that they too have continued to maintain a strangle hold of some sub-sectors of the Nigerian economy and would consciously do all in their power to chase away any non-Ndigbo from these ‘colonies’ of theirs. Examples: the petty trading which they arguably never, ever pay tax nor have these small businesses registered for purposes of annual accounting which in an organised economy would hold them accountable, instead of using the proceeds of such businesses to bleach and buy designer clothing to show off to all the Ngozis of this world, I.T, sports, entertainment, property/real estate, food businesses, hospitality, and the transport industry – automotive (sales of components and spares, particularly luxury buses, business centres, community pharmacies (chemists), importation, hawking, grocery and vegetable businesses, purchasing and supplies, upstart/small buses/petty trading, bukateria businesses, grinding businesses, traditional apprenticeship programme/scheme (TAP/TAS), leather and fashion, health and beauty (fragrance and cosmetic), rental businesses, broom selling, snuff (ohi ataba – Yala, for tobacco business), oguro/liquor, pepper soup, including isi-ewu, okporoko (Akproko – Yala) head business, cassava/yam businesses, second hand book markets, the shoe industries, sales/marketing/importation of electronic and electrical appliances, Okrika (second hand clothing) businesses, Akproko (stockfish) businesses, foundry, scrap metal businesses, Dane gun industry, clearing and forwarding, Nollywood (entertainment), blacksmithing, copper smithing, goldsmithing, palm wine tapping business, retail generally, to name just a few.
What is more, in Nigeria, Ndigbo arguably are in control of about 85% of the traditional retail sector of the Nigerian economy and 97% non-government-self-efforts-self-help, self/privately funded upstart businesses with a potential capacity to progress into big businesses!
NDIGBO: REPUBLICANISM vs. MORNARCHISM, AND FROM REPUBLICANISM TO POLITICAL MONARCHISM
Although arguably, Ndigbo taught the world the art and science of (subtle) conquest and colonialism through trade and commerce as against colonialism and conquest through violence and all sorts of bestial inhumanity of man to man.
As a matter of fact, the Chinese are using Ndigboism/Igboism or better still, Ndigboan method/strategy to conquer, colonise and then rule the world through trade and commerce.
Also, in the manner of pre-Saulian Israel, Ndigbo, again, arguably taught the world republicanism – rulership without kingship devoid of monarchism, but through Ndichies (the elders) until its destruction and subsequent destabilization by the Euro-colonialists around 1800 through the imposition of Chiefs, thus, inaugurating the era of political monarchism in Igboland - an abomination which has not only continued till date, but has seen and manifested the most ridiculous, embarrassing and the worst form of political monarchism via the creation of pockets of political communities (PPCs), popularly known and referred to as Autonomous Communities, and having as it were, a sort of caricaturised or fake and equally pockets of monarchs who are merely fighting tools in the hands of their Governor-creators, whom they obsequiously serve in their perpetual BOLEKAJA WARS with their political opponents.
Whilst this assertion of mine or hypothesis, if you like, is at its fledgling stage, until my study and research on societies like Afghanistan are concluded, viewers may if they like to tickle and humour Ndigbo, refer to American independence, 1776, French revolution, 1789 and the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, amongst others.
NDIGBO AS THE INITIATORS & PRECURSORS OF THE POLITICS OF DOMINATION, IMPOSITIONISM AND NEPOTISTIC POLITICS IN NIGERIA…THE FIRST REPUBLIC AS A CASE STUDY!
Ndigbo must here be made aware that whilst they are quick to cry out about the so-called domination of their ethnic nationality/tribe by the Nigerian state, more so, by the Fulani-Hausa-Kanuri-Arabs in alliance with the Yorubas, other Nigerians are probably not unaware of their unaccommodating hold on these sectors, amongst many other sectors too numerous to name within the context of this my: NDIGBO PRESIDENTIAL PROJECT 2023, perhaps the education sector, and other too numerous to list here, including more than anything else, all that were right and wrong during colonial and postcolonial Nigeria, at least up to 1966 when they lost out in the Nigerian power equation and scheme of things!
Again, very arguably and in principle, it could be said although administratively speaking, the nation’s major economic arteries – the seaports, airports, waterways are in the hands of the Fulanis, Hausas, Kanuris and the Yorubas, but the majority of the economic activities carried therein are by Ndigbo, so it could be reasoned or deduced within the context of NDIGBO 2023 PRESIDENTIAL PROJECT (N2023PP) that they are in control of these places too, hence in their hands.
Furthermore, is there any market, big or small, shopping centres, supermarkets, shopping malls, business centres/parks/plazas and retail parks, pedestrian lanes, roadsides, hawking businesses, including the banking/finance/I.T. subsectors and indigenous/traditional apprenticeship endeavours in Nigeria that Ndigbo traders do not dominate, and do treat and molest traders from other parts of Nigeria and Africa as outcasts/social pariahs and lepers, and treat them so, by stripping them of their humanity and dignity, whenever there is a slight disagreement between any Ndigbo, other Nigerians and Africans?
At the commanding height of the national economy, I.T. and education, smuggling businesses, building materials, cottage industries in Nigeria, the pharmaceuticals, Ndigbo occupy and enjoy a confident and comfortable and an unchallenged lead and frontline positions.
Thus, it is not unlikely that Ndigbo are the ones that have the economic, education, I.T., sporting and cottage industry power in Nigeria.
It can, therefore, be concluded that whilst Ndigbo have spent decades moaning and pointing a finger about marginalization and injustices as perpetrated against them by the Nigerian state, especially at the political level, they must be told in no unmistaken term that four of the five fingers on the palm of every Ndigbo are pointing back at they, themselves – Ndigbo!
NDIGBOISM vs. MACHIAVELLIANISM…THE END NOT ONLY JUSTIFIES THE MEANS BUT MIGHT IS VERY RIGHT!
SECENARIO 1
Have you ever stood at Oshodi to pick a taxi, and after having paid say: N2,000.00 as agreed between you and the taxi driver to Ikeja, an Igbo person funnily and smartly dressed in very stupidly expensive attires in the name of the latest, even though living in a Boys’ Quarter accommodation in Ajegunle, beckons to the driver after having asked him how much the other passenger had paid, this our hypothetical Igbo person would offer him N10, 000!
The taxi driver orders the N2,000.00 person out of his car.
Woe betides the N2, 000.00 person if he protests in the name of a free and democratic Nigeria, governed by the rule of law. The fake Igbo ‘rich’ person will not only threaten to slap/beat the ‘poor’ passenger but will threaten to lock them up at a police station and forget them there forever.
Not done, our Igbo faking riches, will leave him with stomach-wounding, stomach-wrenching, and very poisonous parting words thus: “God punish ya Papa, punish ya Mama. Na me say make you poor? Get out!”
SCENARIO 2
Have you ever been in a rented accommodation for many, many years - maybe in a six-storey building, where your rental has been about N5, 000.00 monthly per room – and a group of Ndigbo, smartly dressed, ‘invade’ the compound, they speak to the landlord after knowing each tenant has been paying such a ‘paltry’ sum of money, they offer the landlord N15, 000.00 on top of the N5, 000.00 he has been collecting, and then after that wicked, mindless deal, borne out of purposeless malignity, total selfishness and crass stupidity, every tenant is given a quit notice, because Oga Landlord wan do renovation, you are give just that week to move or these Igbos themselves will take the law into their hands to bring Oga Olopa dem to throw out every body and their properties, not minding how that will affect all, including children. And soon as everybody is driven out, that hitherto relatively very quiet house, becomes a ceaseless beehive of activities where all sorts of businesses are carried out 27/7. And even though the police know, the businesses being transacted thereat are illegal – they turn blind eyes, but would frequent there to collect huge sums of money from the Igbo guys doing illegal businesses there. The police as well as the landlord are placed on special salaries. The end of my story!
WHO ARE TO BLAME FOR THE NEAR ABSENCE OF FEDREAL PRESENCE IN THE SOUTH EAST?
And with respect to the paucity or near absence of infrastructural development in the whole of the South East, I would as a former Head of Environment, Development and Property Desk of The Punch with all sense of responsibility advise my Igbo compatriots to look inward by asking their sons and daughters what happened to all the money they had collected and are still collecting, not state allocation please, from the Federal Governments for the construction of South Eastern Trunk “A” roads and other developmental critical national infrastructure (CNI).
After all, charity, it is said begins at home.
And once they have been given answers by their sons and daughters, they can reach out to all the former Heads of state and Presidents alive to confirm or otherwise about the so-called utter neglect of the South East Poligeozone in infrastructural development by the successive Federal Governments of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, from 1960 till the very present.
The difference between the South Easterners and their compatriots in other parts of the Federation is, whilst the other albeit, glibly/weakly try to hold their leaders to account, Ndigbo have always allowed themselves to be deceived, exploited and then turn round to waste their time and dissipate their energies doing Biafra and SIT-AT-HOME whose game is plotted and hatched and sponsored/funded/financed by their leaders who often and always in every regime/epoch become obscenely rich at their collective expense as a people; and are in fact, the errand boys and foot soldiers for every Artaxerxes in Babylon, always collecting money from every/any Government in power (EGIP/AGIP) to go and put inside the boys dem mouths, make they no do Biafra again, but which they often pocket! Thus, the times they are supposed to spend in Judah scrutinising and beaming their collective searchlight on their leaders are spent chasing shadows and mirage in the name of the Republic of Biafra – every time gathering in their shameful cowardice at the Eastern side of the Niger, and never, ever reaching the Western side of the river, whereupon they burn fires and throw their weak catapults which stones never go beyond an electric pole, but would often draw the ire of every Babylonian king to mobilize their troops for python-dancing, leaving them dead in droves as if the lives of Ndigbo do not matter, including capturing others amongst them like thoroughly bedraggled rainforest rabbits and taking them from Judah/Judea into captivity in Babylon!
Also, need I say that in each generation the separatist errand boys do sharpen their creative imagination to reach out not only to Ndigbo in the diaspora who have one axe or another to grind with the Government at the centre, and other ignorant and gullible Igbo in the diaspora; they also reach out to the enemies of Nigeria – some foreign governments for funding, all of which ended in the private accounts of these so-called “Dear Leaders” Overseas.
Is there any human being on this planet who does know that before that boy was captured in faraway Kenya– whatever be his name, whatever he calls himself or is known by, by his band of gullible, totally indolent and rebellious onyebrus (touts) that Kanu X not only love life and the good things of life, and was moving/travelling in and around the world with chartered private jets in the name of wetin call – ehen…FREEDOM FIGHT or FREEDOM FIGHTER? In that his incurable delusion of grandeur, he tends to think he is Kim Jong-un of Igboland – more so, when those gullible touts around him have begun to refer to him with that unmerited appellation as OUR DEAR LEADER.
What is more, when he was captured and handcuffed, was he wearing okrika toro-toro?
Funny enough, whilst these so-called dear leaders traverse the world seeking funding for the breakup of Nigeria, travelling with Nigerian (ECOWAS) passports, their gullible and ignorant followers are made to buy Biafran passports at very exorbitant prices!
The separatists that abound register their charities and businesses and print Biafran accessories and insignia and sell to these their foolish followers, some of whom do get killed in their stupid and ignorant pursuit of BIAFRAUDLUTA and BIAFRATOPIA which are a mere mirage.
Now, tell me – which of the separatists warriors/Generals/warlords are poor, beginning from Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Ralph Uwazuruike, IPOB X, Ibobo X (Igboho) and the now Niger Deltan billionaires and kings and a host of others too numerous to mention here, whose evil and ignominious activities are not known to the Federal Government of Nigeria and publicly?
It is therefore, to be stated categorically for the sake of the ignorant majority and the children of the coming generations of Ndigbo and by extension, Nigeria that the never-ending secession project of Ndigbo is not only a money-making machine, but a ploy by the Ndigbo ruling elites to pull a wool over the eyes of the ordinary Igbo person to prevent them from scrutinising them thoroughly; their performances in offices; gross ineptitude and an unparalleled corruption within by focussing attention on their imaginary enemies in far-flung Babylon– any government in power (AGIP) at the centre at any given point in time in Nigeria, and by extension the Nigerian people.
IMBALANCE OF POWER: CUTTING OFF NDIGBO FROM THE NATIONAL UDALA TREE…POST COLONIAL GOVERNANCE AND ALLIANCES IN NIGERIA, 1960 TILL THE PRESENT
“…We see them scheming
We know them troub
So let them plot
We see them scheming
We know them troub
So let them plot….
What a plot, them a plot now…”
- Ziggy Marley.
- Ahmadu Bello/Tafawa Balewa, NPC (Fulani/Hausa) – Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, NCNC (Ndigbo) Alliance, 1960-1966.
- “Interlude: Nwafor Orizu (Ndigbo) – Bukar Zana, Kanuri, but (Fulani/Hausa) Alliance, October/November 1965 – January 1966
- John Umunakwe Agu Ironsi (Ndigbo) – Major General Oluwafemi Ogundipe (Yoruba) Alliance,
- General Yakubu, Lantang, but (Fulani-Hausa) – Obafemi Awolowo (Yoruba) Alliance, 1967-1971 as Oyeniyi Awolowo was generally regarded as the de facto civilian Vice President to Gowon, whilst Vice Admiral Joseph Edet Akinwale Wey was the de facto Military Vice President (two Vice Presidents) during the Gowonian administration!
- Yakubu Gowon, Angas (but Hausa/Fulani) - Vice-Admiral Joseph Edet Akinwale Wey (Efik) Alliance, but because of the (Fulani/Hausa)’s control of the Nigerian State, July 29, 1966-July 29, 1975, it was in fact, a Hausa/Fulani-Efik Alliance and not Angas (Lantang-Efik) Alliance! Even though Wey had been the de factor Military Vice President to Yakubu Gowon right from the start of the Gowonian era, this writer thinks the presence of Obafemi Awolowo made the Alliance to be firstly, Fulani/Hausa – Yoruba, and scholarly speaking, then a combination of the Fulani/Hausa-Efik/Yoruba Alliance came into force after the departure of Chief Awolowo from that Government in 1971. The reader must be made aware that VA Edet Akinwale Wey was both of Efik and Yoruba parentage. Even when Awo was still in Government it would be right to say Gowonian Administration was in fact, Angas (Lantang), but Fullani-Hausa – Awo/Wey (Yoruba and Efik) Alliance.
- Brigadier, Murtala Muhammed, Auchi, but (Fulani-Hausa) – Brigadier Olusegun Obasanjo (Yoruba?) Alliance, July 29, 1975-1976, February 13.
- General Olusegun Obasanjo (Yoruba) – Major-General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua (Fulani/Hausa) Alliance, July February 13, 1976 – October 1, 1979.
- Alhaji Shehu Shagari (Fulani/Hausa) – Alex Ekwueme (primary)/Nnamdi Azikiwe (NPN-NPP - secondary), Ndigbo Alliance, October 1979 – December 31, 1983.
- Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Fulani/Hausa) – Brigadier-General Tunde Idiagbon (Yoruba) Alliance, December 31, 1983-August 31, 1985.
- General Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida, Ogbomosho, but (Fulani/Hausa) – Commodore Okoh Ebitu Ukiwe (Ndigbo) Alliance, 1985-1986.
- General Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida, Ogbomosho, but (Fulani/Hausa) – Admiral Augustus Akhabue Aikhomu, Irrua, South South Alliance, 1986-1993.
- Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan, (Yoruba) – General Sani Abacha, Kanuri, but (Fulani/Hausa) Alliance, August 26, 1993 November 17, 1993.
- General Sani Abacha, Kanuri, but (Fulani/Hausa) – Lt. General Donaldson Oladipo Diya (Yoruba) Alliance, 1993-1997.
- General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Kanuri, but (Fulani/Hausa) – Vice Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe, Fugar/South South Alliance, 9 June, 1998 – 29 May 1999.
- Olusegun Obasanjo (Yoruba) – Atiku Abubakar (Fulani/Hausa) Alliance, May 29, 1999-May 29, 2007.
- Umaru Musa Yar’Adua (Fulani/Hausa) – Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Ijaw/South South Alliance, May 29, 2007 – 5, May 2010.
- Acting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Ijaw/South South, 9 February 2010 – 5 May, 2010, caretaker Government for the Fulani/Hausa hegemony/cabal.
- Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Ijaw/South South – Mohammed Namadi Sambo, (Fulani/Hausa) Alliance, 19 May, 2010 – May 29, 2015.
- Muhammadu Buhari (Fulani-Kanuri-Hausa), but Daura Confraternity (from DAURAGERIA to BUHARIGERIA)/Family-run/kinship Government – Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo (Yoruba) Alliance, May 29, 2015 – Date, first of its type since the history of Nigeria.
- What & who next?
ANATOMY OF GLOBAL YOUTH VIOLENCE & ZERO YOUTH MORALITY
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Why does one youngster stab another with a knife which they will never, ever dare to stab themselves with? Why are our young people killing themselves without thinking of the pains and sorrow such barbarism and bestiality will leave their loved ones with for the rest of their lives? Why do some young persons - members of the same community prey on one another with such jungle-like ferocity in the nation’s cities? Why, why are there now so many of such gruesome, purposeless, wicked and unwarranted killings in the nation’s cities as if Britain is now a land that devours its children? More worrisome is the fact that when they are hacked to death so young, what happens to their dreams, visions, goals and aspirations?
Heart-rending as these painful questions are, Be A Beacon of Hope in the World: A Message to Young Britain does not attempt to offer answers to these puzzles arising from the untimely deaths of Britain’s children through knifings. However, it seeks to act as a guidepost, compass and a Sat Nav to point young persons in the direction of the good way and on the path of civility, decency, common sense, humaneness and universal altruism, whereupon they are expected to have respect, first for themselves, for others and for all of life’s forms. Therefore, let the alarm bell which this book has triggered off to warn all young persons in Britain and the world over that to live in the fast lane is to die young, reverberate through the vista of time.
ABOUT JOHN ODEY ADUMA
A highly successful and award–winning British Chevening Scholar, Poet, Editor, Columnist, Communications Consultant, Author, Commentator on national and international issues, Environmental and Publishing Consultant, with expertise in Conflict Management, Public Surveillance, Media, Business Management and Administration, General Marketing, Market Research, Sales, Advertising and Public Relations.
John Odey Aduma, British Chevening Scholar, Author of The Diamonds Are Here, Lord Rumens (ed.), Be A Beacon of Hope: A Message to Young Britain (soon to be released to the global public by Austin Macauley Publishers, United Kingdom), and a renowned environmental journalist was born on December 13, 1963 at Okpoma, Yala in Ogoja, Cross River State of Nigeria. He was educated variously at Christ the King’s School, Okpoma, 1969-1970; St. Mel’s Primary School, Woleche-Ebo, 1971; St. Gabriel’s Primary School, Ebo-Ipuole, 1972-1974; Christian Vocational Commercial School, Okuku, Ogoja, 1975; Faith Institute of Stenography, Shogunle, Lagos, 1976; Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, Lagos, 1977-1982; University of Ibadan, Department of Adult Education, 1983-1984; Obafemi Awolowo University, 1985-1989, where he graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in English Studies; University of Lagos, 1991-1992, where he worked for and obtained an M.A. in English; and at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, 1994, where he took a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism; City University, London, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2004, where he was a British Chevening Scholar and studied for his M.A. in International Journalism with specialism in Environment; City Business College, London, 2005-2006 for a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies, but completed only the taught course; Voice Coaching, CSV Media, London, 2006; Radio Production, CSV Media, London, 2006 and the City and Guilds Certificate in Conflict Management. 2006.
Besides, he has attended many training courses in Planning, Writing and Production Skills on Communicating for the Environment.
He was the winner of the Nigerian Media Merit Award for Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence, Reporter of the Year, both in 1992. He also received a Community Service Award in 1997 and the Outstanding Staff Award of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc in the year 2001.
In 1994, he edited Lord Rumens, a book on a prominent Nigerian business tycoon and Lawn Tennis icon, Chief Ajisomo Alabi. He was a member of the Green Environment Movement, and the Nigerian Field Society (1990-2003), he was on the Core Committee of the National Technology Summit and doubled as the Summit’s Publicity; Products and Exhibition Chairman, 1998.
Other national and important committees on which Aduma has also served or headed included the National Planning Committee, Youth Development, Federal Ministry of Education and Youth Development, 1993; Core Committee, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)/Ford Foundation, Kano Eastern Bypass Roadside Tree Planting Exercise, 1997; Chairman, Planning Committee, Alhaji Babatunde Jose’s 75th Birth Day, 2000, (Dr. Jose was a doyen of Nigerian journalism and was the first African Editor, Managing Director and Chairman of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc); Chairman, Planning Committee of the 7th and 8th General Murtala Muhammed’s Memorial Lecture (the late Nigerian Head of State), 2001 and 2002; Chairman, Planning Committee of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc’s 75th Anniversary, 2001 including sitting on many national techno-industrial committees (too numerous to mention here) in his capacity then as Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria.
Aduma, Communications/Environmental Consultant, Critic, Poet, Essayist, and Columnist, was formerly Staff Reporter, The Guardian (flagship of the Nigerian media) 1990-1993; Consultant/Chairman, Media, Green Environment Movement, Nigeria, 1990-2003; Senior Correspondent, The Independent Weekly, (1993-1994); Head, Environment and Property Desk, The Punch (1994-1997); Editorial Consultant and Contributing Editor, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation’s Tortoise Magazine, 1995; Contributing Editor, Pole Star Magazine (1998); Member, Editorial Board of The Nigerian Conservationist Magazine (1995-2000), Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria, (1997-2000), Southern Coordinator/Public Affairs Manager, The Pastoral Resolve, 2000, (a pastoralists NGO) headed by one of Nigeria’s former Head of State), General Muhammadu Buhari, presently, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; and Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc (2000-2003).
He was one of the twelve eminent Nigerians appointed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR) of Nigeria into the Administrative Panel of Inquiry, also known variously as Presidential Panel, Commission of Inquiry, respectively to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna into and out of Nigeria in 2003.
In year 2003, he attended the Chevening Leadership Programme, (sponsored by the British Council and Shell) at the elite Lagos Business School (the Pan-African University) in Nigeria and thereafter, proceeded to the United Kingdom as a British Chevening Scholar to study International Journalism at City University, London, where he worked for and obtained an MA in International Journalism with specialism in environment.
Between 2005 - 2009 he was Media Director, PRONACO (Pro-National Conference), UK/Europe.
Also, between 2013 and 2021, Mr. Aduma was involved in the Professional Post Graduate Mentoring Scheme of City, University of London and he is currently a doctoral researcher at SOAS, University of London.
In addition to his array of degrees and extensive experience in journalism, environment, development, international diplomacy and international security, Mr Aduma obtained the AET (Award in Education and Training), Level 3 from CONEL, a Further Education College and member of the Capital City College Group (CCCG), London, including Higher Education courses in Education and Training – the CET (Certificate in Education and Training) Level 4 and the Specialist Diploma in Teaching English: ESOL & Literacy, Level 5 from the same Further Education College, all in 2018.
Aduma is the Chief Executive Officer of VIGILANCE-THE WORLD’S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE (www.vigilance-securitymagazine.com) and the founder of Scorpion News Corp (www.scorpionnewscorp.com).
His new book, now a global bestseller was released on the 4th of January, 2022.
- ODEY KABO OBOYA ADUMA (Johnny Boy).
One of God’s workmanships in His service, that of country and humanity.
** *The Voice of One crying in the Diaspora…proudly leading the NATIONALISTS UNITY MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (NUMON).
Goodbye and may God the Almighty, bless our Nigeria.
Nigeriaholically yours,
CCLPS, SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.
