By Odimegwu Onwumere

It is sanity for Ndigbo to forget their right in Nigeria. To the former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, it is only the dead that forget his or her right. And this could be the reason he has told the Northern part of the country that has been spitting fire and brimstone to take power back in the 2015 president elections, to forget the hypothesis and support Ndigbo to mount the exalted seat in that year.

Through many individuals and groups, but, especially, the one called the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), the North has declared that the problem of insecurity, which has been bedeviling that part of the country, can be solved, but only when power goes back to the region. Conceivably, this is the only agenda that the North has. And that has been propelling it to clamour for power return to the region, in the next presidential elections.

Ask one Prof. Ango Abdullahi, spokesperson of the group, who happened to be the former Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-vice-chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, what the position of the North is in the 2015 presidential elections and, he will tell you. He forgot that Dr. Kalu, who has been championing the cause of Igbo presidency and the Igbo unity, through an assemblage he serves as the impermanent head known as and called Njiko Igbo, did not care whatever was the resolution of the NEF, in a meeting that was said the group have held at the house of Maitama Sule in Kano, to tell the North that it never had it so good.

Kalu saw the North to be inconsiderate for this call, whereas Ndigbo of the South-East zone has been shouting on top of the roof that they are marginalised in the things and politics of the country. The courageous and cheerful Kalu has not minced words to remind Nigerians of the marginalisation of Ndigbo, by stating that his two eyes have seen that the North shares and benefits much and more under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, with such positions like the Vice President, the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Justice of the Federation, Chief of Defence Staff and even the chairman of the ruling party, yet, it is not satisfy. So, what does the North want in 2015?

According to the fiscally and well-connected dude, the North should even be pleading to the rest of Nigerians not to make the international community know that it enjoys 20 states. But how many does the South-East has? Only five poorly funded states by the Federal Government. Kalu was crying that the North should not see the South-East zone, as a place belonging to a people from the blues. He was of the belief that the North has been over-pampered in the country, with whatever it clamoured for given to it, but not the presidency of 2015.

It was because of the unity of this country that both the president and his vice were once allowed to come from the North. Kalu said that this was during the Muhammadu Buhari/Tunde Idiagbon regime. Both of the military men who once ruled the country came from the North. And, in 2011, for the same unity to reign, the Yoruba gave the position of Speaker to the North. Kalu wondered why the North should always be calling for the ‘human heads’ anytime other zones want to test what it had tasted.

It was evident that the major problem with the country had come from the North, especially whenever power shifted from the region. This was why Kalu has urged the so-called northern leaders to stop any parochial mindsets that do not augur well with the country and, should also, stop anything that would overheat the polity, like the North’s fierce eyebrows about 2015.read more http:///1cxtKgp