Ndigbo are wise to align with South-South for Jonathan

 Ndigbo are wise to align with South-South for Jonathan

Many friends keep reminding me that as a fallout of the Igbos "political miscalculation" in this Nigeria 2015 general elections, the APC has 64 senators, none is Igbo. "so we cant even ask for Senate President".

AND I ASK:

Does it matter?

 [if the spineless buffoons don't decamp to APC fast enough].  Let NdIgbo play opposition politics for once. Yoruba has done so for decades and are none the worse for it..

Igbos should consolidate and place themselves in a position where they could control the economy and see if Nigeria will not beg them to lead in the next ten years. The Jews constitute less than two percent of America population yet no one could become the US president without Jewish backing. The two major political parties [Republicans and Democrats] compete among themselves as to which party serves Jewish interest better.

That is a position I crave for my fellow Igbos.

Let Rochas  Okorocha even be defeated in Imo State so the Igbo could unite under a common umbrella in a common purpose of developing a strong Eastern Region with the South South [Niger Delta region]! 

"General Buhari won an elections that was more of a gang-rape of President Jonathan and my people. NO, I won’t congratulate General Buhari for winning an elections that was won by lies, deceit and hypnotism. I won’t congratulate General Buhari for winning an election that was won by turning the north against my people. Not in an election that President Jonathan’s foot-path was washed by all the Water Board’s waters of Daura. I shall not congratulate General Buhari in an elections he won by inciting hate amongst my people." - Donald Ekpo

Goodluck Jonathan's Loss: Posterity will Judge the North:

"Posterity will judge the north for these decisive and massive rejection of the south south even after all the support we have given to the north in every elections before this one. For as they rejected us massively, their allies shall reject them when they are needed most. Its not personal, but karma." - Donald Ekpo

As far as I am concerned:

"The most beautiful thing, which has happened in this 2015 presidential election is that the "Eastern Region" has managed to unite against all odds, as it did in 2011. And this unity of purpose, regardless of the outcome, is far more and much more important than who occupies Aso Rock.

Whether it is GEAJ or Buhari who occupies Aso Rock, it is immaterial to the singular development and achievement, which is that the "Igbo and its so-called minority neighbors have forged a bond for something, tested, and it endured, at least, for three or four consecutive seasons or runs."

Former Finance Minister Nnanna Kalu Idika Kalu, in a forum last week rebuked 'Ezi Ochieke' for:

" joking" at this hour, when decisions are being registered through the hallowed ballot for the resolution of some of the very key issues that prompted the set up of NEEC! I hope , nonetheless, that we are all paying attention to the evolving democratic system that is unfolding across the land!

Consider for a moment that by our ' politics' and expressed voting pattern, we may be conclusively consigning an erstwhile third leg of the nation's Tripod, to a permanent "minority" status in the Nigerian equation!

Along with this self- imposed re-designation, it is evident that virtually all our new found partners in this minority "pot" would receive preference and consideration ahead NdeIgbo from the standpoint of the "new consolidated majority" of TWO. .the North and the SouthWest!

It's not just about our derisive stance and voting behavior during the past six- odd years of the out-going presidency, but the way and manner of the "religious commitment", and unalloyed detestation for analysis and objective evaluation. .!

We have finally concluded consigning our new legacy apposite that handed to us by our founding fathers. . . Nnamdi Azikiwe, Michael Okpara, Francis Akanu Ibiam and others!

It's no wonder we are looking for a place to take solace and to hide our face. We have really, single-handedly shackled ourselves with the chain of " the marginalized" ! Even at this hour. ,the Imo vote could restrain the full apartness from a final minority status. . But quite oblivious of this possible saving grace, we are still cursing and tugging at the chain of Igbo self- exclusion. . and pouring venom on our own brother !

Identifying the problem is a necessary condition to beginning the process of finding a solution. == Kalu Idika Kalu

'Ezi Ochieke' reply to Nnanna Kalu Idika Kalu:

"You see, there will come a time when you will ask a Nigerians on the street who their president is, and they will tell you: "Eh, I think its that guy, em, what's his name again? I forgot."

That is when you will know that Nigeria has arrived. Go to Switzerland and ask them the name of the prime minister, and you would be shocked that the average citizen does not know, and does not give a hoot. That is my vision for Nigeria. So, lighten up, okay?

The "Igbo" is not part of a "tripod." That era has been buried. I do not know why you insist in exhuming the dead, when you know full well that you are not a miracle worker, and do not possess the power to resurrect the dead by any means. So, what is this?

Nostalgia? Or do just like saying it, because it feels good in your mouth?

Follow me here, jee, jee. With all due respect, at some point in your elderly life, you would do better to let the young who has wisdom to hold your hand and lead you, okenye ishi awo, instead of resisting because you think you know based on the old ways.

But ihe ochie agawo. Anyi no n'agba ohuu. 

The most beautiful thing, which has happened in this 2015 presidential election is that the "Eastern Region" has managed to unite against all odds, as it did in 2011. And this unity of purpose, regardless of the outcome, is far more and much more important than who occupies Aso Rock.

Whether it is GEAJ or Buhari who occupies Aso Rock, it is immaterial to the singular development and achievement, which is that the "Igbo and its so-called minority neighbors have forged a bond for something, tested, and it endured, at least, for three or four consecutive seasons or runs.

And this is what I have been preaching since time immemorial, but apparently, you continue to miss the message for  whatever reason that is best known to you, which you are yet to disclose beyond "hiding" behind "NdeIgbo" "tripod," and "marginalization."  Those are your own imagination, and they are wrong, unless you can prove your point in the current scheme of thins, which you have not proven, yet.

And I doubt very seriously that you could prove your point -

whatever it is. First, you would have to state the "point." And thus far, you have not done a good job in convincing your readers what your point is. 

As for "marginalization," who is still talking about that, except you? That is precisely my point. You cannot seem to make up your mind what it is that you want for this presidential election. You are worried that GEAJ might win. And at the same time you are worried that Buhari might win. What does that tell you about your "own" democratic development, and yet, you invoke "NdeIgbo" at every turn, when they have nothing to worry about with the context, which you (KIK) frame things.

Your theories, I have heard and listened to them many times over, and they are irrelevant in the scheme of things.

If your worry is "NdeIgbo marginalization" at the center because of the "winner-take-all" approach of Nigerian politics, then your concern should be toward pushing for reform on how to fix such clearly destructive and "exclusive" anomaly in politics, especially, in a Third-World-dog-eat-dog-savage kind of politics and governance as that of Nigeria, which we love to tout as "young democracy."

In case, I have lost you, if say, for instance Nigeria practiced a "true federalism," say, as that obtained in the United States, do you honestly believe that we would be here now talking and worrying about "tripod," which is as idiotic, intimidating and antagonizing a terminology as they come, as a mechanism for protecting "NdeIgbo?" 

You see, Nigeria has copied that American-style of democracy, and that is what you and I should be pushing for Nigeria to put into REAL practice. In that absence of such utopian dream, (y)our best bet should be to fashion a way to (re)unite (y)our base, which is the Eastern Region.

If your base is Lagos, as we have been told, then fight for representation in your Lagos base, and stop all this deafening shouts of "NdeIgbo" this and "NdeIgbo that." Fight for your base. Fight for representation there. That is what true federalism means. That is what practical and functional democracy means. 

If Nigeria was not the mother of all jokes, it would have been counterintuitive for an Igbo residing in Kaduna as his PRIMARY HOME to ignore advocating for development in this his primary residence, and instead, be talking about development in his village - a secondary home where he only visits, perhaps, once a year during Christmas. It shows that "we" do not have faith in Nigeria.

If that is the case, make every effort to strengthen your immediate neighborhood, which is the entire "Eastern Region." Striving to be at peace with your neighbors must be our primary goal. And for that, we must at all times, be at war with our own personal and individual vices, for the interest of the neighborhood.

Your (KIK's) "solution" is not a solution at all. It is poison. If not now, it is in the long-run. It carries the trait of treachery in every manner of speaking. It does  not matter how much you hide behind politics or your dialectical "NdeIgbo."  Yes, the Igbo have heard you loud and clear, and they have rejected your counsel and approach.

It does not matter from this point on, who Nigerian choose as their president. What matters is that the "Eastern Region" is united, regardless of the past differences, who did what or who started what. As such, we shall never cease to thank God for President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Whether or not he is clueless, the most stupid, and the most corrupt president that Nigeria has ever produced, is neither here nor there. I do not know how else to drum this matter into your elder, perhaps, grey-haired head.

You raise the issue of "NEEC" to make your point of, as a place to proffer deep solutions facing "NdeIgbo." Good! I am glad that you dragged NEEC into it.

But you see, in your zeal to chastise, you appear, every time, to fail to see that NEEC or the Nigerian Eastern Economic Corridor" was designed and set up to, specifically, UNIFY or UNITE, at the very least, "economically," the (former) "Eastern Region of Nigeria." This economic unification of the Eastern Region would serve as a precondition for the unification of all other interests, which may, naturally, follow.

If have argued this before: "the chicken of the egg, which one came first?" And as such, I would not like to dabble into that argument or rehash things over. The answer, unequivocally, is that "the chicken came first." Period! That puts that portion of the argument to rest. Those who want to go back are argue it, are free to do so, by all means.

But moving forward! 

Yes, we know that politics, in the real, sense of the word, drives all other things, which may follow, in sequence and the cycle of sequences. What I am leading to here, is that we the people of the Eastern Region, have taken that first crucial step in the saying that we want a united Eastern Regional political development by choosing a presidential candidate, and overwhelmingly, supporting that candidate as good for our eastern regional mandate, "NEEC." 

And for the sake of this argument, what if GEAJ loses, so, what? What does it matter if it is Buhari that wins? Why should we be afraid that he would be against NEEC? If so, that still goes to buttressing the point that the man would be the wrong choice win or lose. Right?

The point is, in closing, it does not matter who becomes Nigeria's next president - whether it is GEAJ (approved) or Buhari, the Easterners did a wonderful and enviable job in showing and demonstrating unity of purpose. Remove this "NdeIgbo" thing from your lips, henceforth. It is getting tired, already. Whatever is good for the MINORITY

neighbors is, also, good for your NDEIGBO. Therefore, swim with them. 

So, what again is your argument, if I may as you?

Peace,

"Ezii" (the way)"

Good POINT EZII

On a final note, from me. Jonathan's victory would have forced the North to agree to renegotiate this unworkable Lugardist contraption called Nigeria, but as usual, the Arewa played a fast one us by their time tasted policy of dive and rule, divide the south: East against the west.

And the Yoruba fell for it: hook line and sinker...TOO BAD!

OGBUEFI NDIGBO