Igbos who have often blamed the Federal Government for the backwardness in the South East have been told that they have no one but themselves to blame for their woes.

Former Abia State Governor and businessman, Orji Uzor Kalu, said in the recent edition of The Interview that, “Igbos are their own worst enemies.”

He said a number of the elite in the region are not only selfish, but that they also get their politics wrong.

“Let me tell you,” he said in an emotion-laden voice, “there were more problems between (Asiwaju Bola) Tinubu and (Babatunde) Fashola, than there were between me and TA (Theodore Ahamefule Orji). But it is the discipline of the Yorubas that kept them at bay. Igbos have no discipline in terms of politics. They are very good traders; they’re good in anything they do, but they don’t understand politics.”

Mr. Kalu’s was referring to the fractured relationship between Mr. Tinubu and Mr. Fashola in the latter’s second term as governor of Lagos State, and comparing it to his own internecine war with his successor, Theodore A. Orji, which led to the extinction of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, the party he founded.

In the interview, described by the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview, Mr. Azu Ishiekwene, as “the political equivalent of the ogbunigwe (Biafran improvised explosives),” Mr. Kalu illustrated his point with a conversation he claimed to have had with President Muhammadu Buhari, who wondered aloud why previous high profile Igbo appointees had done nothing for the region.

Mr. Kalu also spoke on the agitation for a state of Biafra and the travails of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu; his relationship with former President Ibrahim Babangida and former Governor Ikedim Ohakim; the recent statement of former Governor Peter Obi; and allegations that while he governed Abia for eight years, his mother ruled.

In this edition, Tolu Ogunlesi engages Boko Haram leader, Abu Shekau in an “exchange” of letters by email and Nigeria’s matriarch of Agony Aunts, Bunmi Sofola, gives an insight into what happens to love in a recession.

In one of his first major interviews, the Managing Director of Nigeria’s mortgage refinance company, Prof. Charles Inyangete, also shared secrets on how you can make mortgage work for you.

“It’s a sure medicine for this recession,” Mr. Ishiekwene said in a statement released on Monday.

Former Abia State Governor and businessman, Orji Uzor Kalu, said in the recent edition of The Interviewthat, “Igbos are their own worst enemies.”

Bolustic:
Cc: Mynd44, lalasticlala,ishilove. Kindly take this to the promised land

Funlordjnr:


NEVER!


And will you remove ishiloves name from there...she cannot help you anymore!

Bolustic:
[s][/s]

Funlordjnr:



Such painment!

Bolustic:

Obviously unhappy with post making fp becaise you know Orji Uzor Kalu spoke that bitter truth YOU PEOPLE DETEST.

Bolustic:

Obviously unhappy with post making fp becaise you know Orji Uzor Kalu spoke that bitter truth you people detest.

MXrep:
We are igbos, we are not yorubas, Godfatherism is dead and buried in SE. Like OUK like Peter Obi, you will never control a sitting governor. How does that translate to Igbos being their worst enemies?? Igboland is an egalitarian society, we will not tolerate shortchanging of the masses by a small elite cult because that is the problem with nigeria at the moment. Igboland is not backward, we reject any arrangement of creating an elite enclave while the rest of the region perish in abject poverty

obaaderemi:
Yes.even on nairaland...imo vs anambra..enugu vs abia. i have never seen oyo vs osun or ogun vs ekiti. shame

MXrep:

bros, keep quiet, stop go and keep rallying round Tinubu, we will make sure OUK remain in political dustbin

Aufbauh:
Igbos have no discipline in terms of politics. They are very good traders; they’re good in anything they do, but they don’t understand politics.”

Le kwam...ooo, Do Mazi Orji Uzor Kalu want Mynd44 to ban the Ipobians from commenting on the politics section and redeploy them to trade/commerce section?

Normality:
.

VivianUdeogu:
Nwannem Let us stop deceiving ourselves. Let us tell ourselves the truth: we Igbos have a fundemental problem. Even beyond politics, we also have deep rooted social and ancestral problems too. We hate ourselves passionately, we discriminate: we still practise the Osu caste system. hate, bitterness, tribialism and clannishness thrive very much in Alaigbo. It is just as if we Igbos are cursed

MXrep:
We are igbos, we are not yorubas, Godfatherism is dead and buried in SE. Like OUK like Peter Obi, you will never control a sitting governor. How does that translate to Igbos being their worst enemies?? Igboland is an egalitarian society, we will not tolerate shortchanging of the masses by a small elite cult because that is the problem with nigeria at the moment. Igboland is not backward, we reject any arrangement of creating an elite enclave while the rest of the region perish in abject poverty