Nnamdi Kanu is not a problem to Nigeria: He is rather the SOLUTION to Nigeria

Nnamdi Kanu is not a problem to Nigeria: He is rather the SOLUTION to Nigeria

A Letter To Olusegun Obasanjo on his exchange with Nnamdi Kanu 

Dear Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR), Nnamdi kanu is not the problem of Nigeria, and can never be. In fact, he is just a product of inappropriate circumstance occasioned by years of mindless misrule, ethnic segregation, prejudice and division, greed, hi-tech corruption and inhuman agenda to dominate others and stifle their right and freedom by a privileged few, which you are part and parcel of.

Since 1967, when you and your northern clique waged a very foolish and needless war to stop Biafra to keep Nigeria one at all cost at the behest of your British sponsors, Nigeria have been a structural misfit. A rotten heap. A conundrum of evil, injustice, violence, bloodshed and ethnic supremacist behaviors. You and your like arrogated it upon yourselves to sit over the destinies of people, becoming the unappointed king makers, deciding who gets what or who becomes what. You supervised mindless looting of public treasury and daylight stealing on daily basis without a thought to humanely develop the society that gave you the platform to loot and steal.

This is the vicious and unjust system you created which is throwing up the likes of Nnamdi kanu to rise up against the state to demand their freedom.

Nnamdi Kanu is not the first person to rise up to rebel against this system since the civil war. This should give you a clue that he's not the problem, but an opportunity to look for solution to solve the fundamental problem once and for all. Calling for his elimination cannot put an end to it, but would rather aggravate it and breed thousands more of him. We have had a Marwan Maitasine who emerged from nowhere to challenge the unjust system. We have had a Gideon Orka who staged a coup and questioned the structural set up of the system. We have had the Gani Adams of the OPC who did the same. We have had Asari Dokubo and the militants of the Niger delta who demanded a breakaway of his people from the unjust system. We have had a Goodluck Digbo of Ogoni Republic. We have had Mohammed Yusuf and his Boko Haram currently putting the structure of the system to serious question.

In all, the system had rather than sit on a round table to discuss the condition that is throwing up the non state actors daily questioning the unjust system, deployed brutal force to silence them in order to temporarily stop it. Rather than stop, It has become a vicious circle.

Nnamdi kanu's current agitations is giving you the opportunity to look inward and reflect on the unjust structure of the system that has been a central theme of the message of all the non state actors rising up against the state. Stopping him "at all cost" as you recently demanded can not put an end to the problem, rather it would throw up hundreds more of him who are still waiting on the sidelines looking for their own opportunity to vent their dissatisfaction against the unjust and inhuman system you entrenched.

He is calling for a referendum, which is an internationally recognized democratic and non violent platform for people to exercise their rights to freedom. He is not calling for war as you erroneously assume. Human beings are born to be free. It is only an animal that enjoys being kept in a cage.

Use your position to call for the renegotiation of this unjust structure and stop mounting barriers to people's freedom because of greed using the out worn cliche "Nigerian Unity is non negotiable".

Reflect deeply on this sir. Since the unfortunate civil war to keep Nigeria one at all cost, what has changed? Why is the country you wasted nearly three million lives to preserve remaining stagnant and never making progress decades after? Why are different characters rising up daily to question the basis and structure of the system?

You claimed the problem of the country is the mentality of the citizenry and not structure, and for the country to move forward, they must change their mentality. Sir you are also part of the citizenry. We hope to move forward when elitists like you begin to change your mentality by thinking on how to give everyone, especially the indigenous peoples their rights to choose and define their destinies.

You may successfully "stop Kanu at all cost " today, but it can never end the problem. Rather, it'll aggravate it.

The people of this unfortunate entity have never had the opportunity to sit together to agree on mutual terms of their existence since forcefully lumped together by the colonists, and sustained by the thieving elites like you. The solution therefore, is to come off your arrogant, elitist high horse and recognize the rights of the indigenous peoples to freely chose their paths; whether they would continue to exist as one in Nigeria or part ways via an internationally monitored Referendum.

Thank you sir.

- Okey Igbokwe