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The Policy of Containment in the East By Michael Okoye From 1940’s to 1979 Easterners [Ibos] knew their leaders and our leaders knew their followers. The Ibos were more united than they are presently. There were only two Ibo states in the East then – Old Anambra and Old Imo states. The two states were more like orphans in Nigeria then and both saw reasons why they should be their brothers keepers. Destiny had somehow entrusted leadership positions on many Anambrarians for reasons best known to destiny and this had never gone down well with most non-Anambrarians from 1960 to Date. Friction
took a Quantum leap at the PDP national convention in 1999 and 2003
where sons and daughters of Jacob [Ibos] sold their brother Joseph [Ekwueme]
into slavery for reasons best known to them. Today they are gnashing
their yellow Biafrian teeth, shouting Ibo presidency to high heavens,
crawling , begging and licking the asses of their fellow Nigerians to
help them actualize their sick dreams. But
before the first PDP convention, there had already been cracks in
Iboland that appeared way back in ’79. When chief Obafemi Awolowo
decided to choose an Iboman as his running mate in preparation for the
second republic, he turned
to Anambra state and took chief Umeadi. The same year, Alhaji Shehu
Shagari chose Dr. Alex Ekwueme as his running mate too and after
the election he equally made late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo his political
adviser. And in that same period, chief Ume-Ezeoke was picked as speaker
of the House of Representatives. All from Anambra state. Things
took a more dangerous turn when IBB gave Ibos five states of their own
and Anambra people automatically became endangered species in Iboland
generally and more especially in Enugu and Imo states. Shortly after the
state creation by IBB government, all Anambra civil servants outside the
new Anambra state were sent packing like slaves, back to their state. My
mother happened to be one of the causalities. Presently in Nigeria, an
average Enugu citizen and his Imo state counterpart finds it difficult
to hide his/her hatred for anything Anambra for reasons best known to
them. Political
leadership in Iboland started with Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Dr.
Michael Opara – both from
Anambra and Abia state respectively. Then came col. Emeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu and General Aguiyi Ironsi – again
from Anambra and Abia states respectively. Presently in Iboland, Anambrarians
and Abians had worked harder than other people in Iboland to overcome
the scars and loses of the civil war. Virtually every good news about
Iboland, comes from these two states, their industrialization, entrepreneurship,
commerce, inventions etc. Virtually everything about Ibomans
ingenuity comes from these two states and I believe there is virtually
no friction between Abians and Anambrarians because citizens from both
states are not as mentally lazy as Ibos from the other Ibo states. But
Anambrarians, by a stroke of luck and hard work, had dominated
virtually everything in Iboland from pre-independence era to date and
most of the lazy minds found in Imo state and Enugu state in particular
had successfully engineered the friction that had torn the brotherly
love in the East to shreds. Presently there is a dangerous policy of containment in the East, engineered by some traitors from Imo and Enugu states to stop anything and anybody from Anambra from making any headway in the political lives of Nigerians. The problem with Ibos producing the next president of Nigeria has nothing to do with other Nigerians buying the idea, but rather has a lot to do with the Ibos supporting who other Nigerians wish to support from Iboland. Nigerians have spoken and they are willing to support an Iboman to be president of Nigeria come 2007 and the Nigerians that had spoken had equally penciled down some credible names for that high office, but the problem now is that the names might end up been mostly from Anambra state. The problem of Ibos capturing Aso Rock is all about the state of origin of the Ibo occupant of Aso Rock. Once he is not from Anambra state, virtually every Iboman would be happy for reasons best known to them too. Chief
Emmanuel Iwuanyawu, Ojo Maduekwe, Arthur Nzeribe, Chimaroke
Nnamani, Achike Udenwa etc had all sworn never to be alive and see an
Anambra man in Aso rock, but they want to see an Iboman in that office.
Every Anambra man must be contained by any means and anywhere – in schools [among
students and among teachers]; in offices anywhere in Nigeria [between
bosses and their subordinates]; in the markets among traders and their
customers]; in churches; in hell and in heaven. This policy of
containment is total and is about to explode. This special hatred for
anything Anambra in Iboland is at the root of all the problems in
Iboland and until it stops, Ibos can neither be united nor achieve their
collective dreams. The
containment policy is not the solution to Ibos problems, but rather
imposing a more rigid policy that would free the minds of most
non-Anambrarians from mental laziness Everyone is aware of the satanic
role Arthur Nzeribe played during the civil war. Everyone is equally
aware of the sadistic role the late K. O. Mbadiwe played in early ‘90s
when he and his friends went on air to announce the sudden death of the
Great Zik of Africa while the old man was busy watching their stupidity
and hatred for him on his TV. All from Imo state. Where has all these evil gotten them today. A bunch of wasted sperms that had refused to cut their coats according to their sizes. Everyone is equally aware of the satanic role chief Iwuanyawu played at the last general elections. A man chosen by Ohanaeze to head a committee created for the sole purpose of finding a credible Ibo candidate for the position of president, went out of his way to openly campaign for OBJ. [out of poverty] and was stupid enough to say publicly that he had not seen any credible Ibo candidate for the office of the President. There was Kalu. I. Kalu, Gen. Ike Nwachukwu, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Jim Nwobodo, and the most credible of all been Dr. Alex Ekwueme. Who in Nigeria then and now is more credible and qualified for that office than Ekwueme. Ekwueme’s crime in Iboland still remains that he is too principled, super rich and the worst of all is that he is from Anambra state. A
few of the remaining thinking adults in Iboland are equally aware of the
satanic roles Adolfus Wabara and Arthur Nzeribe are playing in the
election crisis in Anambra state. You can keep on with your policy of
containment and I guess you would find a more credible candidate after
the Asteroid had landed in 2014. You see, you do not need to beg and
prostrate to Nigerians for anything. You only need to earn their respect
the hard way, like the real Ibos. Done
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