Anybody chiding the Igbos for not protesting is either a compound f.ool or totally bereft of the historical lessons of 1966.

We can even see the same tendency in contemporary times.

We saw how the EndSARS almost got successfully tagged as the Igbos trying to destroy Lagos.

We see how each election in Lagos gets successfully tagged as the Igbos trying to take over Lagos.

Thanks but no thanks.

Elections are the best forms of protest.

And the Igbos have been on point since 1999 as all their choices have been vindicated.

That’s smart voting.

You nip suffering in the bud by making the right electoral choices.

It is smarter than closing your eyes to make s.tupid choices only to take to the streets after the consequences of your choices begin to manifest.

I salute those on the streets today, but I don’t trust all of them to be smart enough to reason things when events get complicated.

The first Igbo attempt at changing the narrative in 1966, initially welcomed with wild jubilations all over the country, somehow dovetailed into the worst genocide Africa had ever seen.

The thinking process that led to that unfortunate era has not only remained unchanged, it has worsened.

If the Igbos marching is a condition for you to join protest, then stay at home.

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Igbos should protest.

But in 1966, a crisis which started in the South West, somehow transmogrified into a bloody civil war where 2 million Igbos died because less than 20 Igbo officers decided to rid Nigeria of the same political class Nigerians loathed.

Not even the plea that Igbo officers were also involved in botching the coup stopped the massacre.

And if you think that voting Peter Obi is a favour you did Igbos, then your knowledge is incomplete.

Yes, an Igbo presidency will engender a sense of belonging.

But even more important, is the RIGHT candidate.

Nigeria had a chance to kill two birds with one stone.

Vote in the best candidate, from a geopolitical region seeking to exhale politically since 1970.

That is why I see Yorubas who voted this mannequin in Aso Rock as the most wickedly bigoted.

But then like I said, the right candidate is much more important than where he comes from.

So quit that blackmail of thinking you did Igbos a favour by voting Peter Obi.

You did yourself a favour.

You did Nigeria a favour.

You used your sense of enlightened self interest.

The same way I would vote a competent yoruba/hausa/Ijaw man over Orji Uzor Kalu or Rochas Okorocha.

And if this so called “ingratitude” is the reason why you wouldn’t vote Peter Obi in the next elections even if he is the best candidate, then it’s obvious you never knew your bearing.


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After protesting;

Then TeaNoobu will sack a few Yoruba ministers, employ more Northern advisers.

The North seeing that 2031 is closer at hand will decide to “wait it out” so power will return to them.

Bayo Onanuga will maintain his message that Peter Obi orchestrated the protest.

Before you know what’s happening, the people who were protesting and those who were anti-protest are back in bed.

Then OBIdients will once more become Obi supporters.

If you don’t see this end-game, the joke is on you.




Culled from Facebook - Obinna Aligwekwe

phantomxx:
Anybody chiding the Igbos for not protesting is either a compound f.ool or totally bereft of the historical lessons of 1966.

We can even see the same tendency in contemporary times.

We saw how the EndSARS almost got successfully tagged as the Igbos trying to destroy Lagos.

We see how each election in Lagos gets successfully tagged as the Igbos trying to take over Lagos.

Thanks but no thanks.

Elections are the best forms of protest.

And the Igbos have been on point since 1999 as all their choices have been vindicated.

That’s smart voting.

You nip suffering in the bud by making the right electoral choices.

It is smarter than closing your eyes to make s.tupid choices only to take to the streets after the consequences of your choices begin to manifest.

I salute those on the streets today, but I don’t trust all of them to be smart enough to reason things when events get complicated.

The first Igbo attempt at changing the narrative in 1966, initially welcomed with wild jubilations all over the country, somehow dovetailed into the worst genocide Africa had ever seen.

The thinking process that led to that unfortunate era has not only remained unchanged, it has worsened.

If the Igbos marching is a condition for you to join protest, then stay at home.

------------------------

Igbos should protest.

But in 1966, a crisis which started in the South West, somehow transmogrified into a bloody civil war where 2 million Igbos died because less than 20 Igbo officers decided to rid Nigeria of the same political class Nigerians loathed.

Not even the plea that Igbo officers were also involved in botching the coup stopped the massacre.

And if you think that voting Peter Obi is a favour you did Igbos, then your knowledge is incomplete.

Yes, an Igbo presidency will engender a sense of belonging.

But even more important, is the RIGHT candidate.

Nigeria had a chance to kill two birds with one stone.

Vote in the best candidate, from a geopolitical region seeking to exhale politically since 1970.

That is why I see Yorubas who voted this mannequin in Aso Rock as the most wickedly bigoted.

But then like I said, the right candidate is much more important than where he comes from.

So quit that blackmail of thinking you did Igbos a favour by voting Peter Obi.

You did yourself a favour.

You did Nigeria a favour.

You used your sense of enlightened self interest.

The same way I would vote a competent yoruba/hausa/Ijaw man over Orji Uzor Kalu or Rochas Okorocha.

And if this so called “ingratitude” is the reason why you wouldn’t vote Peter Obi in the next elections even if he is the best candidate, then it’s obvious you never knew your bearing.


--------------‐-‐----------------------‐--‐--‐----

After protesting;

Then TeaNoobu will sack a few Yoruba ministers, employ more Northern advisers.

The North seeing that 2031 is closer at hand will decide to “wait it out” so power will return to them.

Bayo Onanuga will maintain his message that Peter Obi orchestrated the protest.

Before you know what’s happening, the people who were protesting and those who were anti-protest are back in bed.

Then OBIdients will once more become Obi supporters.

If you don’t see this end-game, the joke is on you.




Culled from Facebook - Obinna Aligwekwe

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