There has been a spate of criticism and worry from the Eastern end complaining that President Buhari’s appointments thus far have been lopsided, and has generally ignored the South-Eastern Igbo in large part, and the minorities of the South, to some extent.

The president’s profile of appointments to key military, security, and corporate institutional positions has tended more to be from the North. In a sense, the President has made the office of the president, the face of his administration, a profoundly regional one. The most disturbing to most people was the quick overturning of the appointment of Mr. Nwabueze C. Obi, as the acting MD of the National Maritime and Safety Agency, NIMASA, replaced with Mr. Haruna Jauro in quick order on the orders of the president.
There is on the surface, a very clearly regionalist bent in the president’s appointments so far, which prompted Dr. Ezeife, reportedly, to snap at the president’s appointment of Dr. Ibe Kachikwu as the new MD of the NNPC – the first of the president’s Igbo appointees. “It is not enough!” Dr. Ezeife says. In a multi-ethnic state, such as Nigeria, with a history of distrust, people have come to regard familiar faces and familiar names they can identify as the basis for securing group interests.
There is very little doubt that the Igbo are a very robust group of Nigerians with their own sense of a strategic interest, and anyone who ignores the Igbo does so at really great risks. I feel certain that President Buhari knows this too. The Igbo have proven precedence of action, once they choose to create synergy, and common cause. And their impact could be devastating. I will cite four historical examples.
Between 1895 and 1930, with British colonial forays into Africa late in the 19th century, the Igbo put up one of the toughest resistances against British colonization in Africa. While the Igbo fought, some of its neighbors fell in quick order.
For instance, in January 1903, twenty four British officers led a column of 700 African soldiers of the new West African Frontier Force, many of them Hausa, fresh from the Ashanti campaigns, and marched on Kano, and defeated it at the battle of Bebedji. The Emir of Kano, Aliyu, was in flight, while his brother, Muhammed Abbas was installed as a British puppet. Emir Aliyu was soon captured, exiled, and locked up in the British military garrison in Lokoja where he died in 1926. The British defeat and killing of Sultan Attahiru, and the Magajin of Keffi, among many in Burmi on July 27, 1903, marked the formal end of the Caliph’s resistance in Sokoto against the British.
Southwards, exhausted by internal rife and the hundred-year civil war following the collapse of Oyo, the Yoruba historian Johnson wrote that it was the Yoruba Obas themselves who wrote and invited the British to come and colonize Yoruba land. Oba Ovoranwen of Benin was quickly defeated by the British and exiled to Calabar, where he too died in exile. But the British fought the Igbo for thirty years, in five campaigns from 1900to 1930, until the British forced the High Priest, Eze Nri Obalike, to appear at the Awka Courts in 1930. Historians like Don Ohadike have written eloquently about the Ekumeku movement and the Igbo use of guerrilla warfare against the British.



Meanwhile, the previous year in 1929, Igbo women had driven away the colonial warrant chiefs, imposed on the Igbo by the British. All that prompted, in an attempted to understand the Igbo, the British government under the Colonial Governor-General, Sir Ralph Cameron, to send a series of Anthropologists to study the Igbo. One of them, Sylvia Leith-Ross, came in 1930, and wrote the book, Among African Women, with the preface by Lord Lugard. She noted thus in her book about the Igbo: “these people are not intimidated by us, and are rather amused by us. They watch us and learn quickly what we know. God help us the day they climb the ladder.”
By the 1930s, following their work as technicians, tradesmen, mid-level clerks in commercial and government jobs, and artisans helping to lay the North-South Rail lines, the Igbo, had fanned across and settled in what is now modern Nigeria.
From 1937-1957 they had enough national density to mobilize and rally round Dr. Azikiwe, and were the arrowheads in the anti-colonial nationalist movement that forced the British colonialists out of Nigeria. By 1967, finding Nigeria no longer suitable for their collective interest and protection, they staged an exit and declared their own state of Biafra. The Igbo remain the only one of the major groups in Nigeria to mobilize an army, create an independent state, and fight in defence of their interests; and they have the capacity to do so again if they feel themselves, and their collective interests threatened. For three years, they fought, and in 1970, exhausted and surrounded, they agreed to a negotiated end, and returned to Nigeria.
But I do know that they did not feel themselves defeated, as elements of the S Brigade under Tim Onwuatuegwu, among whom my uncle, now a Professor of Geophysics, had been trained and prepared to activate the guerilla phase of the war nation-wide should there be need to defend the Igbo in 1970. Nigerians should thank General Gowon, and the late MD Yusuf, who made it part of his policy, to absorb key members of the Biafran Organization of Freedom Fighters, into the Nigerian Intelligence Services to tamp down that possibility.
The Nigerian government knew that the Igbo were the only part of Nigeria that had highly trained combatants with field experience who had circulated into civilian life as traders, artisans, students, university professors, civil servants, teachers, and other professionals, and you do not mess with people like that. Nigeria gave the Igbo their due up till the middle of the 1980s. I have outlined these simply to suggest that President Buhari, himself a combatant of the last war, knows the Igbo, and that he would not take Igbo interest for granted.
General Sam Momah, once Buhari’s Principal Staff Officer has reminded the Igbo that some of the President’s best friends are Igbo. I do believe him. I also think that this president has a right, indeed an obligation to his office, to choose whomsoever he likes, from any part of Nigeria, to do the job. Fair representation is fantastic. But the president is possibly signaling an important message, that these ethnic or regional considerations, should not be at the detriment of competence and trust. The people he has chosen so far, seem competent. All we need to do is keep them under scrutiny. What the Igbo should campaign for is that no matter who occupies a public office, no Nigerian, Igbo or not, must suffer discrimination, or be the subject of selective targeting, in the exercise of the function of any office. Nice as it might seem to see a familiar face in the picture of the president’s team, I should prefer that the president be pushed more in the direction of influencing more direct federal investments in Igbo land, to alleviate the problems of the high unemployment rate in the region.
The president does not need to love the Igbo, but he must assure them just and equal protection in his government in terms of direct benefit to their wider number. Not to do that will certainly rouse the Igbo to seek justice by all means necessary.
Besides, President Buhari will not be the president forever, and the precedent he sets today, might mean, that whoever becomes president after him, may as well choose his key staff from his region, for as long as they satisfy the criteria of competence, integrity, and fairness in the execution of their jobs. The Igbo should therefore be patient, and circumspect on this matter of the president’s political appointments: let him do his job, with the men and women he can trust to do it.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/bhuahri-does-not-have-to-love-the-igbo/#sthash.efrYvzwV.dpuf

Buhari and Ndi igbo, efi rayin sile

No one has to,they can Mastubet.

Tonnes of lies in that write up.

The people who Lost almost everything from their roots more than the west and north to the whites,are claiming putting of the resistance.
So barbaric had to be assimilated.
The earlier conquered people


And no one can call me igbo hater coz i like phyno

Idontbelieveit

Our survival does not depend on any human, be it who.




Ishilove, lalasticlala.

hmm

reading

Reading too

Ok

Reading with an intent to understand rather than to reply.

Those responsible for this latest IGBO, HAUSA YORUBA division are trying to set this nation on fire. GEJ was president for six years in this country and the common man in South-East was not in anyway impacted on positively. This latest ethnic jingoism by some people should be checked before it get out of hand. I still stand to be corrected on how the last administration affected the lives of Ndi-Igbo!

free2ryhme:
Those responsible for this latest IGBO, HAUSA YORUBA division are trying to set this nation on fire. GEJ was president for six years in this country and the common man in South-East was not in anyway impacted on positively. This latest ethnic jingoism by some people should be checked before it get out of hand. I still stand to be corrected on how the last administration affected the lives of Ndi-Igbo!

Close your mouth if don't know what to say.

To hell with him and his appointments.

my surprise is that the southwest have kept quiet about this administrations appointments, first tinubu said buhari needs 100 days of honeymoon, meaning he also is confused about the administration hence he needs more days to understand. we all saw fayemi, fashola and co.. at the beginning partying and laughing with buhari, now where are they. the north has taken over, if ten people surrounds buhari 8 are from the north not just north but core Muslim north. I understand the southwest situation they are ashamed to start criticizing this govt cause they supported the govt heavily during elections or they are "giving the govt time". the moment the southwest realize that trying to get power through the north is like pouring water on a stone, then they can achieve their dreams cause whether we like it or not what a northerner thinks first is the north second the north and third others its obvious in most of the statements of amadu bello( mentor of the north). for the Igbo's they have always survived all the cankerous govt we have had so pmb wouldn't be an exception. I still can't understand why this country is still together.

the silly fools who have taken the advantage of British/Western help, now think they amount to something... cowards

Lol ok

Buhari does not have to lo love Igbo truly. One northerner a month back said Buhari owes Yoruba nothing. Buhari a month before that bombed calabar areas and said he is ending amnesty for ND. Thus, we see lopsided appointments for Northern muslims, including for the Office of 1 st "Aisha".

But have we asked another question or gotten an answer from it. Did Gbenga Daniel love Ogun people? Did Ibori love Delta People? Did Alams.. love Bayesla people? Clearly Oshiomole and possibly Okorocha love Angola people.

What of the worse of them all- Theo Orji? Did or does he love Abia people. What has he done as senator for 2 months besides hiding in Abuja?

That's right, Buhari doesn't have to love Igbos. Igbos must do everything to reciprocate!

Igbos hav been surviving without Fed. gov. presence since ages, tell me ethnic group in Nigeria that did not fight any war that are doing well than Igbos. Non, rather Igbos are doing well more than them, even in the northern part of the country that hav been ruling this country for more than 30 yrs are ravalging in abject poverty.

What buhari has done is to re-invent the animosities that characterised the politics of the 60s. All the progress made within the last few years in terms of ethnic cohension is being obliterated by a petty minded old army officer who still sees politics from the barrel of a gun. Buhari is almost 80 and will die at the time chosen by his god but the hate and anger that have arisen as a result of his polarising politics will pursue this generation to no end. There is no justification or reason for his vindinctive policies against the SE. We owe him nothing and are not duty bound to vote for a man who still treasures his role in the Nigerian genocide against the igbos. It is also very important for every igbo to resist this attempt to subjugate the east. If Nigeria can not accept igbos the way they are, then Nigeria should let igbos off this convulsing amalgam.

Nigeria maa dara si.

PhockPhockMan:
Our survival does not depend on any human, be it who.




Ishilove, lalasticlala.

If only igbos will believe in this and stop blaming Nigeria for their woes.

owobokiri:
What buhari has done is to re-invent the animosities that characterised the politics of the 60s. All the progress made within the last few years in terms of ethnic cohension is being obliterated by a petty minded old army officer who still sees politics from the barrel of a gun. Buhari is almost 80 and will die at the time chosen by his god but the hate and anger that have arisen as a result of his polarising politics will pursue this generation to no end. There is no justification or reason for his vindinctive policies against the SE. We owe him nothing and are not duty bound to vote for a man who still treasures his role in the Nigerian genocide against the igbos. It is also very important for every igbo to resist this attempt to subjugate the east. If Nigeria can not accept igbos the way they are, then Nigeria should let igbos off this convulsing amalgam.

God bless you!

TheOnlyWiseMan:

Close your mouth if don't know what to say.

wetin this mumu dey vomit from mouth

Buhari said he will give us 5% of his benevolence and we are not complaining instead we are proud of it.
PROUDLY 5%.

Had Buhari been probing more of Igbos recently despite the 'claims' that he hasn't been handing them juicy portfolios, I would have outrightly seen him as one who detest the Easterners. But as it stands,no such hatred has been beamed at the Igbos.

biafra is all we ask for. biafra must be restored. for those wha think IPOB is joking and nnamdi kanu a fraudster, kindly click the link below
https://video-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xfp1/v/t42.1790-2/11859605_670428039757940_1970163811_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjE2NDUsInJsYSI6MTA2MH0%3D&rl=1645&vabr=914&oh=d03c20f9e7e953c0e49db9cd0731300b&oe=55D0DB36

phlemzy:
b] Had Buhari been probing more of Igbos recently despite the 'claims' that he hasn't been handing them juicy portfolios, I would have outrightly seen him as one who detest the Easterners. [/b] But as it stands,no such hatred has been beamed at the Igbos.

Meaning?

owobokiri:
What buhari has done is to re-invent the animosities that characterised the politics of the 60s. All the progress made within the last few years in terms of ethnic cohension is being obliterated by a petty minded old army officer who still sees politics from the barrel of a gun. Buhari is almost 80 and will die at the time chosen by his god but the hate and anger that have arisen as a result of his polarising politics will pursue this generation to no end. There is no justification or reason for his vindinctive policies against the SE. We owe him nothing and are not duty bound to vote for a man who still treasures his role in the Nigerian genocide against the igbos. It is also very important for every igbo to resist this attempt to subjugate the east. If Nigeria can not accept igbos the way they are, then Nigeria should let igbos off this convulsing amalgam.

Well written.

It's true federalism,or i will help sink Nigeria.


Buhari,DSS,and all one Nigerianists,hear me and hear me clear,I WILL HELP SINK NIGERIA

Meanwhile, the previous year in 1929, Igbo women had driven away the colonial warrant chiefs, imposed on the Igbo by the British. All that prompted, in an attempted to understand the Igbo, the British government under the Colonial Governor-General, Sir Ralph Cameron, to send a series of Anthropologists to study the Igbo. One of them, Sylvia Leith-Ross, came in 1930, and wrote the book, Among African Women, with the preface by Lord Lugard. She noted thus in her book about the Igbo: “these people are not intimidated by us, and are rather amused by us. They watch us and learn quickly what we know. God help us the day they climb the ladder.”

lol. This summarizes the Igbo that I know. That is why I laugh so hard when some ijjiots come to Nairaland to try to intimidate us about our quest for Biafra. I just laugh because those people are totally clueless about the core of the Igbo mind.
That core is made of freedom and steel.
But they will never learn, will they?