Chigbu Okoroafor

The sound of restructure or dissolve Nigeria has now become too loud for the core north to ignore. And certainly they are not ignoring it. A digression must be created, they have reasoned, and a very suitable one has emerged for that matter. A northern president of Nigeria emerging from 2023 election will set their harvest field, Southern Nigeria, aflame.

They are now converging on option B – Igbo presidency, believing it to be an agenda that will put Yorubas on high level of presidential pursuit and diminish their pursuit of Restructure or Dissolve Nigeria agenda. While on the other hand, it will entice and persuade Igbos to abandon support for separation and cause their leaders, who are already very hungry for the presidency, to become subservient to northern leaders in exchange for support for Igbo president. In all, it will scatter the Southern/ Middle Belt alliance and the struggle for a better and equitable Nigeria.

This is the northern leaders’ permutation.

In their calculation, a Yoruba president will be too independent and strong minded; will go for his people and general interest of Nigerians without preference for the North; will command absolute support and protection from his people. He will be a bad choice for the sustenance of a sectional agenda.

Their game plan is to avoid the so-called full blooded Igbos and crown one of the feeble Igbo that have demonstrated absolute loyalty and spirit of servitude to the northern leadership, as the president of Nigeria come 2023. This is the option B the North is converging upon as alternative to remaining in power beyond 2023. And such men abound in Igbo land. I don’t need to mention their names because we all know them.

They have ruled and ruined their states.

They have represented their people in different capacity and denied them their rights and benefits. Some of them have even started implementing the RUGA programme in their states as reported in newspapers.

Northern Nigeria made Igbo president will come to hurt Nigerian masses worse than having an outright northern president. The damage this presidency will bring to Southern Nigeria and Middle Belt, if allowed to happen, will be worse than what was witnessed when Obasanjo’s regime wasted an opportunity to reposition this country on the path of progress. Developing an escape roadmap from this snare must start now and should involve all progressive Nigerians from both North and South. The battle is not for or against the people of Southern or Northern Nigeria but against a cabal that has held both the North and South down. A concrete strategy to counter this sinister ploy, that will give more impetus to and concentration of resources on restructuring the country should be the ideal response now.

Third term agenda was sold to Obasanjo by northern leaders as a way to delay his intended putting Nigeria in a progressive mode which the northern leadership felt was detrimental and harmful to their interest irrespective of how it would have benefited northern masses. With third term as an ambush, the northern leadership lured Obasanjo into delaying his intention to return Nigeria to its former glory as it could cost him the supposed third term ambition’s support from the North. When Obasanjo became obsessed with the idea, the same northern leadership came to the southern leaders and reported against Obasanjo’s ambition for third term and solicited support to kill it.

Obasanjo did not reposition Nigeria on the path of justices and equity nor place her in motion for progress despite two terms as president because he was waiting for third term. He still did not get his third term ambition and Nigeria continued to wobble to the detriment of the South, Middle Belt and northern masses.

When Jonathan came to power, Obasanjo approached him with the truth over a second term ambition that could derail his intention to strengthen up Nigeria, and asked him to do everything he has to do for Nigeria to move forward in his first term and leave second term to providence. Jonathan and his presidential team saw this advice as Obasanjo’s uninvited instruction to destroy Jonathan’s political career, and cut him off from the president. And Jonathan did not reposition Nigeria for better nor did he get a second term after pleasing the northern leadership with his first term to the detriment of the South, Middle Belt, and northern masses.

These scenarios are most unlikely with a Yoruba president in 2023 with home support which Obasanjo did not have. A home-boy Yoruba president will be more committed to protecting his name, family and tribe more than personal wealth especially when he has the examples of Awolowo versus Akintola to learn from. Therefore, he will enter Aso Rock with the zeal to make name as the liberator of Nigerian masses from the oppression of a cabal that has held them hostage for decades. He will go for history to recognize him as the father of Modern Nigeria and the one that created the march to progress of a new Nigeria where all sectors of the country compete for better quality of life. He will go for a name for his future generations. Above all he will have total and absolute support of his people that will become his strength in achieving this noble objective.

As a precursor for the northern agenda of planting Igbo president of their choice in Aso Rock, the Igbo leadership has been bullied into pouring abuses on their sons and daughters in the name of denying and castigating IPOB because the northern leadership has demanded for such as prerequisite for giving any consideration to Igbo presidency. Since the inception of OPC from far back Abacha’s time, no single Yoruba leader has abused OPC leadership; rather their leader has been elevated to the highest military title of the land.

But the Igbo leadership is very ready to sell her heritage in exchange for a pot of tuwo in other to gain favour to produce Nigerian president. The northern leadership knows that for this country to take a progressive march, a full blooded Igbo or Yoruba man or woman with full support of Nigerians needs to take over Aso Rock and be fully in charge.

Before we can support Igbo presidency, we need to be sure that Igbo leaders have learned to respect and carry leaders’ only legitimate and most reliable strength, the youth and masses, along. Otherwise the Igbo leadership will end up producing an Okoro-Hausa president in 2023 that will finally halt Nigeria’s search for progress and development. If Igbo leadership had respected and carried her youth and masses along, the mistakes of IPOB that has become a threat to the Igbo nation’s integrity could have been avoided. The Yoruba elders are in control and in full command of OPC from behind the scene because the Yoruba leaders are carrying their youth and masses along. This is a lesson the Igbo leadership must learn so that the East and West of Southern Nigerian leaders with the support of their youths and masses can form a synergy to counter the East and West of Northern Nigerian’s leadership supposed homogeneity that had sustained a Kaduna Mafia in the past and now sustains a cabal. This homogeneity is not founded on any principles of equity and justice, but on common personal selfish agenda that denies even their people basic qualities of life. Now is the time to evolve a simple strategy that will bring about justice and equity in Nigeria for the benefits of Nigerians North and South. As it stands today, every Nigerian is a loser and Okoro-Hausa president in 2023 will make Nigerian’s situation to become irredeemable.



Okoroafor wrote this from New Jersey, USA.

You're in New Jersey writing something this vapid and miserable. In the society the writer is in, making a political assessment this hopeless, and visionless will cause you to lose your job.

But you can sit in New Jersey and pour this trash on Nigerians in Nigeria because you won't suffer the consequence of adding your ignorance to the political discourse. While others are discussing high speed rail, you're worried about a 'home-boy yoruba' president.

Perhaps they should crown Kanu as President. I'm sure for fuqs face kayode would not mind being his vice president. Except Nigeria is a democracy where we the people might just have something to say about that.

I don't know what this writer is saying but I believe that Umahi and Peter obi (the 2 front runners) are good enough and strong minded enough to lead this country.
I will choose them any day to Tinubu

jacksonkennedy:
I don't know what this writer is saying but I believe that Umahi and Peter obi (the 2 front runners) are good enough and strong minded enough to lead this country.
I will choose them any day to Tinubu

No Igboman will ever rule Nigeria. Stop dreaming.

jacksonkennedy:
I don't know what this writer is saying but I believe that Umahi and Peter obi (the 2 front runners) are good enough and strong minded enough to lead this country.
I will choose them any day to Tinubu

No Igboman will ever rule Nigeria. Stop dreaming. The last Igbo man that ruled Aguyi Ironsi selfishly promulgated Decree 34 of 1966 which dismantled the regional government and imposed unitary rule. Igbos will pay for this sin forever

Option B by the northerners. : Igbo presidency

Writers Chigbu Okoroafor

simpleseyi:


No Igboman will ever rule Nigeria. Stop dreaming. The last Igbo man that ruled Aguyi Ironsi selfishly promulgated Decree 34 of 1966 which dismantled the regional government and imposed unitary rule. Igbos will pay for this sin forever

o pls shut up. without mincing words other people know where you're from.

thiefnūbu fan boy. your talks hold no water. when the time comes you will be tossed aside .

There is nothing like southern Nigeria.
What we have is south and west...pls

simpleseyi:


No Igboman will ever rule Nigeria. Stop dreaming.

call the youruba man that will run.






thiefnūbu

jacksonkennedy:
I don't know what this writer is saying but I believe that Umahi and Peter obi (the 2 front runners) are good enough and strong minded enough to lead this country.
I will choose them any day to Tinubu

Obi or Umahi should be the best choice for Pdp presidency.. Pdp must zone their presidency to SE.. Its SE turn

MelesZenawi:
There is nothing like southern Nigeria.

What we have is south and west...pls

very simple. the west is hoping on the north to vote them. because they will lose abismally if they bank on southern votes. even the north knows this. so what's their bargaining chip ? .



that's y you see them crawling from thread to thread screaming igbo will not be president.



now house pikin for they strong b4 e go outside.

helinues:


Obi or Umahi should be the best choice for Pdp presidency.. Pdp must zone their presidency to SE.. Its SE turn

while dr ogbonaya onu. or Sullivan chime will run under apc. very simple.

orion7:


while dr ogbonaya onu. or Sullivan chime will run under apc. very simple.

No, SE politicians did not invest enough in Apc..


Even the SS have more chances than SE in Apc.. That's a fact

helinues:


No, SE politicians did not invest enough in Apc..


Even the SS have more chances than SE in Apc.. That's a fact

na your own you dey talk. .



even if buhari wants to support tinubu , me and you know say then kyari , daura et al nor go gree. accept your lot. that's the price for being unstable.

orion7:
na your own you dey talk. .

That's a fact.. You guys should stop playing politics of impossible assumptions .

My beloved OP, you really pen very well. Please do not relent because Nigeria will not survive under the control of Orji Kalu, Rochas, Joe Igbokwe, or the likes. We must keep our candles burning to avert the imposition of a weakling. All Nigerians are involved

helinues:


That's a fact.. You guys should stop playing politics of impossible assumptions .

soooo tinubu is the possible assumption?

pipeliner:
My beloved OP, you really pen very well. Please do not relent because Nigeria will not survive under the control of Orji Kalu, Rochas, Joe Igbokwe, or the likes. We must keep our candles burning to avert the imposition of a weakling. All Nigerians are involved

if they bring those clowns den apc will loose abismally

orion7:
soooo tinubu is the possible assumption?

Where have you seen me supporting Tinubu's aspiration?

helinues:

Where have you seen me supporting Tinubu's aspiration?

osinbajo ? but they wont even consider him. even tinubu sef.

helinues:

Where have you seen me supporting Tinubu's aspiration?

osinbajo ? but they wont even consider him. even tinubu sef.

orion7:
osinbajo ? but they wont even consider him. even tinubu sef.

Well, that's left to Apc and her supporters to decide.. But Osinbajo wont be a bad choice.. My opinions

There is something about this moniker Metaphysical and his unhealthy obsession with anything and everything Igbo.

Something is definitely wrong somewhere.

helinues:


Well, that's left to Apc and her supporters to decide.. But Osinbajo wont be a bad choice.. My opinions

except you re kyari your opinion doesn't count.

orion7:
except you re kyari your opinion doesn't count.

I am much more aware about my unrecognised opinions that's why I stated my opinions..

But Una cases are always different.. Assumptions does not translate to reality.. No major political party can zone their presidency to SE.. But you guys still dey assumed the possibility.

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helinues:


I am much more aware about my unrecognised opinions that's why I stated my opinions..

But Una cases are always different.. Assumptions does not translate to reality.. No major political party can zone their presidency to SE.. But you guys still dey assumed the possibility.

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helinues:
Option B by the northerners. : Igbo presidency

Writers Chigbu Okoroafor

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helinues:


Obi or Umahi should be the best choice for Pdp presidency.. Pdp must zone their presidency to SE.. Its SE turn

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