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A Rejoinder to E. Terfa Ula-Lisa, Esq. “Ngozi Iweala, Our Next President” By Carl Umunna
This communication is to express my appreciation to Mr. E. Terfa Ula-Lisa, Esq.’s new found freedom, liberty and brotherhood in Milwaukee here in the United States his adopted home. In this light, h is free agency found in his recently posted article at NVS and elsewhere titled: “Ngozi Iweala, Our Next President.” Permit me to note that the idea – Freedom is a beautiful concept, when properly deployed within the scheme of things particularly within the current troubling-waters within the Nigerian-political-plate these days.
With all due respect to the writer, Igbo-women and women cross the globe, I respectfully disagree with you on many things. First and foremost, within the organizational leadership found in Igbo-plate, Ndi-igbo’s organizational structure identifies men and women with their exceptional roles thus our sons and daughters know their place in society . Also note that we take exceptional reverence for our woman and appreciates their contributions overtime. For instance, Aba-Ngwa women’s riot of 1929 triggered a record high act of freedom, expressed in their collective rejection of outrageous foreign dominance administered by the British under its criminal colonial control of our land. Their efforts then and today in the political process of our existence never depreciated and we will have a hard time to completely figure it all out. This singular act of 1929 has gone down in history forever, a historicity of Igbo women’s excellence and virtue. To this end, I adore and salute their courage today and always.
Conversely, make no mistakes that as long as the sun gives it light and other earthly and heavenly firmaments are on time, this writer can assure you that no amount of gross intellectual deceptions can shield the truth from the light. Mr. Ula-Lisa in his communication remarked that Mr. Obasanjo “has intimated us that he knows those who would not succeed him; made it clear that Mr. Atiku is not his favorite, not to mention the issue of being his successor.” Great! But in response to your article, this writer disagrees and now questions who Mr. Obasanjo thinks he is to dictate to Nigerians who would succeed him and who would not succeed him under the current “Nigerian fledging democracy” as it were. To this writer this attitude is flagrant display of totalitarianism if not fascism on the side of Mr. President. Under free and fair elections, one would hope that it is the duty and responsibility of Nigerians to make that call, make that decision at the polls not Mr. Terfa Ula-Lisa and OBJ.
Be mindful that this is the only seating President that thumbs his nose at Nigerians by openly instituting personal library worth over N1.8 billion with public funds. I stand to be contradicted or corrected on that statistical index. Otherwise, were did OBJ get his funds from to contemplate of such a magnificent edifice, completing of a private University while the premier universities and other universities across the country are collapsing due to lack of funding or other related matters. OBJ is the only tyrant that used federal funds allocation from fed meant for Operation Feed the Nation [OFN] that turned up in Ottah Farm. This is the only administration that has no Minister of Defense and Minister of Petroleum & Gas and someone somewhere conceptualizes and projects that he has good intentions and then call it fiscal responsibility. To this writer and others it is called fiscal criminality and open day robbery of Nigerian resources for his personal use and ownership. The anti-corruption campaign has in all intents and purposes, with acclaimed good intentions has displayed gross sellectivism and scapegoatism in its mission and operations. As it now stands we are living witnesses to this whole hubris.
DSP Alarm was wrong in all ramifications. However, in all fairness, the process leading to DSP’s impeachment as processed and triggered in Lagos rather than in Bayelsa, his subsequent arrest both in London and Nigeria, the calculated display of arrant breach of constitutional fairness of individuals as prescribed in the constitution as deemed innocent until found guilty by law in dispensing the process, not given him or his attorn eys’ opportunity to defend himself or themselves and present their side of the story to Bayelsans and Nigerians in a “democracy,” is not only flawed, it is tragic and very embarrassing. Just as DSP’s money laundry and his other illegalities were tragic, flawed and embarrassing to all of us.
OBJ’s anti-corruption campaign and other reforms cannot work because OBJ and his administration are not clean either. It gives a picture of a situation were criminals are chasing criminals and political opponents. You can spin this idea however you want, OBJ is not a messiah that Nigerians want or that will free Nigeria from its current troubling waters. Continuity cannot effectively function or take-off unless there is capacity sustainability and capacity retention matrix put in place which, to the best of my knowledge does not exist in the Nigeria-plate today. In addition there is this lack of maintenance culture in Nigerian frontiers, reflected on decades of pot holes on our roads, depleting runaways of our airports and other infrastructures and then and finally, decades of corruption across the land, corruption with impunity has shifted to total system-collapse seen on land, air and sea. As if not enough, air disaster after air disaster explains the indescribable massive corruption within the aviation industry and corruption in all ranks and files across Nigerian-plate.
Professionalism and technocrats
Beside your acclaimed Nigerian professionals and technocrats in diaspora that you and others have incessantly implored OBJ to get on board, allow them with free hand to fix economic mess created by previous administrations as this would ensure smooth sailing system like other nations is also based on falsehood. The truth is that the concept of Nigerian foreign professionals may contribute a little but their contributions can never be a major panacea to problems in the homeland because foreign professionals have been away for too long, do not understand it, are not on the ground to review the statistical indexes of damage done in the homeland. Lets you wallow in intelligibility absence, be it known that Nigerian problems are culturally and ethnically interwoven, engrained in it s structures. To this end, not until ethnicity questions are address and rebuilding take place via local ingenuity, rather than via foreign expertise the project will remain a charade. Foreign expertise has failed the republic time and time again in the country’s 45 years of existence, Please check your research papers before delivery.
The idea of Ngozi as having a grasps of macro-international-financing, based on her western training and more is economically suicidal and irrelevant to the conversation of bettering our economy through locally built engines for so many reasons. I will explain.
The IMF, World Bank and other western financial institutions were built to serve the western interests while in the other hand, directly or indirectly these financial institutions are structured with regulations and laws to pauperize the rest of the earth-plate and its inhabitants. With due respect to the west, in the latter’s worldview, any socio-economic-agenda in the world that does not align such agenda in specific clear terms with economic-strategic interests of the west or that of the United States and its multilateral partners is seen and treated as aberrational, unsophisticated, mundane and thus unacceptable.
To refresh and re-educate your mine, remember that after WW II in 1945, Brenton-Woods and Associates were instituted under the eagle-eyes of United States its key founder and controller. Its key purpose was to re-construct war torn Europe and Japan. Funds emitted from these institutions were made out as grants to these European countries and Japan not loans as they are today to “developing countries. Sometimes thereafter, in the likelihood of 50s and 60s, Brenton-Woods & Associates changed its name to what is known today as World Bank and began its initial loaning system to other countries what you labeled Third World Countries [TWC] or countries with economies in transition if you include former Soviet Union satellite states now known as countries of Independent States [CIS]. Loans with stiff conditionalities from IMF/Bank to countries like Jamaica, Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda to mention but a few subsequently destroyed these developing economies or countries with economies in transition. This happened through – IMF/Bank failed Programmes in these plates – namely: Poverty Eradication Programmes – MAMSER/Structural Adjustment Programmes [SAP] in Nigeria under IBB and similar agendas were in full swing in countries mentioned in this piece. Note that not even a single program by these institutions was a success. They failed flat and the writer stand to be corrected.
In their usual manipulations, these financial institutions will then get into blame game with host countries and thusly every two years they will eventually change these program names to other acronyms like – PEP – Poverty Eradication Program et al. The point here is that none of these programmes had any tangible impact on the people. No matter how good these programs sound on the paper, they were not designed or meant to help the populations of these nations-states, rather it was designed to mortgage them to debt forever. If not how come Nigeria’s debt of 9 billions became twenty-something to thirty-something billion dollars? In fact, these programs were by itself a recipe to poverty and other challenging difficulties for our peoples.
The trick is that Fund [IMF] in collaboration with the Bank [World Bank] will actually advise or come to nations and appeal to them to take the loans, tell them to open their markets and then plagued these loans with stringent conditionalities that at the end of the day the servicing of the principal alone is greater than the principal itself. Under this pedigree, your Ngozi belonged and served honorably before she became Finance Minister. My question therefore it while Ngozi once served as one of its Vice Presidents, why didn’t she provide advisement then to the Nigerian paper-tiger - under IBB not to get our nation involved into this imbecilistic-mess? Was it not the same Ngozi and her likes that insisted in dollar salary of 250.00 plus per year if not all heads will break loose in Aso-Rock? The debt relief under her watch and Soludo is tainted, as Paris Club and IMF in its secret-stratagem knows that these nations cannot get off of these debts, ever, under any circumstances.
The 19 billion dollars debt relief that will be monitored in phases by the body with its tripling interests is not a good deal for our people as you would otherwise like us to believe. With due respect to you sir, your applause of debt relief package under these foregoing conditionalities, including neo-colonialistic-seals with other remarks by you in your paper showcased your intelligilibility absence at the highest order. The truth is that Paris Club has stolen from Nigerian population. Money that would have been invested in Education, hospitals, maintenanc e of colossal collapsing infrastructures across Nigeria has been criminally handed over to the international fraudsters like Paris Club while our people die everyday in abject poverty. Bottom line, in my view, Ngozi and their likes are western gate-keepers representing the interest of the west rather than the interest of our people, case closed.
Nigerians in the homeland have local ingenuity professionally across the board that can provide guidance and assistance to the Republic b ut these technocrats have been sidelined for too long. They have not just been allowed, given the opportunity to participate in that country’s body polity as we know it.
Politics of Continuity
It is not completely true to say that one of the major or rather greatest problems of Nigeria is the lack of continuity. To the contrary, you failed to see the major bottleneck[s] in Nigeria. The true problem in Nigeria is elitist greed and nepotism. Followed by external impositions of foreign ideas, foreign economic-interventionism which has impeded Nigerian economy. In 60s down to 80s 60 kobo was equal to a dollar. Europeans flooded our universities to teach and to study. University of Ibadan and UNN and others had the best equipped Medical Training Centers in the whole of Sub-Sahara Africa – SSA if not the whole of Africa. Iraq, Nigeria, and other countries are typical examples of foreign intervention taking its toll on these developing econ omies. Exxon and Elf Oil companies control our industry. These multinationals in collaboration with Nigerian elites drill our oil and ship refined oil products of exorbitant prizes to Nigerian and other consumer populations around the world. While through this scheme and Nigerian collaborators refused to allow our repairs or built new refineries to enable them continue their looting prey. This is why everything is heading to collapse today because somebody is getting rich, benefiting from the chaotic system of the land. Democracy cannot be externally imposed on countries – democracy will take hold only when it is locally developed, nurtured by locals not foreign interventionists.
Oil bunkering and corrupt illegalities tripping Nigeria-state today is as a result of external influences as encouraged as well as internally motivated collaborations with aliens thusly creating a force-multiplier-force grid-lock of gatekeepers at the detriment of the Nigeria population. If we want prospective investors to invest in Nigerian-marketplace there has to be trade-regulations and laws passed at the National Assembly encouraging our trading partners to buy Aba-made and Igbo-made products in exchange to their incessant use of our land to dump their outdated commodities into Nigerian-shores. Otherwise, it is not a Fair Trade – but rather a Free Trade with colossal lopsidedness in favor of our foreign international business partners. As hinted above, we have situations were United States and its allies encourage countries like Haiti, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, South African countries to open their markets but in retu rn refuses to buy merchandize made in the partnering countries. What kind of international trade and partnership is that? Nigeria has turned its land into a free-for-all marketplace when it comes to international trade with little or inconsequential regulations and trade laws created in order to monitor foreign investors and other participants in this arena. It is almost everybody rushing to it to dump their outdated commodities since it is a country a-washed with mediocrity. The looting and other unjust practices in the Nigerian-plate have gone unabated for decades and might even be on the rising. OBJ and majority of his cronies, family members according to reports are part of operation loot-Nigeria dry as their actions are a manifestation to these ills which are by means antithetical to patriotism which he - OBJ attempts to project. It is not OBJ’s duty to look for his successor it is the duty and responsibility of Nigerians to decide that Sir. And from the writer’s aforementioned scenarios, Minister of Finance is not equal to the task either and she is not Ndiigbo option. Be informed that Ndi-igbo are not afraid to leave the good and go for the great.
Ndi-igbo and Presidency
This writer appreciates your suggestions about Ndiigbo question and Nigerian presidency. On the other hand, with all due respect sir, your appeal again showcases your intelligibility absence as to the political structure in Igbo-plate. This writer earlier on pointed out that Ngozi is Bank’s gatekeeper and does not represent Igbo neither is she the answers of Igbo questions as you postulated spuriously in your material. Ndiigbo by nature are charismatic, exposed through trade- and commerce. They are exposed and industrious in all they do domestically and internationally. Anywhere in the world you do not find a single Igbo son or daughter, it is this writer’s advise that you depart from that area. Something is definitely wrong with the area or country in question. Perhaps this environ is not meant for human-habitats. You told the truth when you remarked that other tribes have ruled repeatedly for years for whatever reason. Nonetheless, either by commission or omission, there seems to be a sense of departure in your article when it comes to Ndiigbo and the presidency.
This essayist will not hesitate to identify your cluelessness coated with subtle insinuations which, in this writer’s view are calculated attempt to insults Ndiigbo:
I] your article almost recapped that throughout Igbo-land there is no credible Igbo son to run Nigeria except Ngozi. Please stop and think if possible and stop your insults on Ndiigbo while using this platform as your lunching pad for relevance. II] According to your article, we understand you live in Milwaukee. One wond ers when you and the discussant visited the homeland last. It is disappointing that even many commentators at NVS and elsewhere were lining up to applaud your weak recommendations. I am not one of them. With respect to you and I do understand the hunger and thirst for relevance within the committee of nations however, your attempt to seek relevance by this means via NVS do not in this writer’s view showcase you in good light as a matter of fact it was a cheap means to this end. Please do not use Igbo as your launching-pad by throwing direct and indirect innuendoes against Ndiigbo. The writer would encourage you to take some break off of writing activities. Forgo jumping onto the key board until better ideas comes to you. If you have nothing or anything good to say about Igbo leadership[s], it is important that you get into other topics that you are conversant with and leave Igbo question out for now.
Ndiigbo has great sons, professionals, technocrats to provide guidance and assistance for Nigeria if Nigeria and Nigerians decides to start on a clean slate.
For your information, record shows that the current governor of Enugu State: Governor Nnamani was named the best performed governor in Nigeria irrespective of the fact that Governor Nnamani operated his state with meager resources. He has also rolled out next year’s [2006] budget already and ready to go to work. He can run Nigeria better than OBJ. states like Rivers – with huge oil deposits, Lagos and others did not do well in the state to state performance indexes; Dim Ojukwu at 72 is young and strong, he knows Nigeria inside-out has the capacity to restructure Nigeria militarily and economically; Professor Ralph Obioha, Ben Nwabueze, Joe Achuzie and others are men with untainted character of Igbo extraction and highly respected in Igbo-land, throughout Nigeria and abroad. Therefore, please go and do your research before recommending anything on Igbo-question and the Nigerian presidency.
And by the way, in Igbo – land, if not in your part of Nigeria, we have an inseparable chain-of-command-nexus and organizational leadership and its political engineering is strong and works. With due respect to Igbo-sisters and other Nigerian-sisters out there, the priesthood leadership runs through the men and not women. I am not trying to throw clay at the clergy. But as the conversation presents itself, you make your argument through certain varying political lenses. Nonetheless, you cannot in this writer’s opinion, make a clear separation from sectarianist to secularist organizational leadership. It is challenging to operate these two without the other. It is sometimes like a water-tight compartment when it comes to the discourse – sectarianism and secularism orthodoxy. I t is tough, otherwise these concepts are interwoven thus the quest for Separation of Church & State has remained battleground like century’s long struggle in the United States and elsewhere for example seems not to go away. That might as well be the case in Nigeria for there is this spiritual linkage of political-leadership-provisions, sectarianism, providence and secularism.
Feminism and Presidency
With new wave of women’s emancipation in the 60s which, has added new spice to the political and economic leadership and its landscape around the world there is absolutely a rethinking going on but it is hard to point at the thresholds or limitations. It is good to say welcome to the patriarchal society were masculinity is a primacy to what is obtainable in this area. But the question is under what structure did women emancipation take place? From Indri Gandhi of India who used Gandhi her father’s influence to grab power, to Margaret Thatcher in Britain, to recently Mrs. Johnson another gatekeeper of the west to Germany’s compromise as recent development have shown an elements of new leadership which are ample examples of women rising to power. It is important to recognize that all these women rose and operated under a patriarchal society – in other words men dominant syst em. By participating under this patriarchal umbrella, women lose their feminist characteristics and eventually take up new roles in the society even sometimes becomes more tyrannical or rather ironic in nature than their men counterpart – a turf braced with survival of the fittest. In this situation, women lose their motherly characteristics. Their lovely, kinder attributes disappears with the thin air. They also join the dehumanization machines found in most men. Sir in society like Nigeria, such idea will be a big trap for Ngozi. She definitely knows better.
On your other point: international businesses as controlled by multilateral entities and corporations are facts to some ex tents because they operate without the approval of the people. The fact remains that these corporations do not have to go through the rigor of elections but operates through lobbying means through party lines-donations. These corporations donate to Republican and Democratic parties respectively in the United States for example. In the foregoing in this paper, the explanations have been tendered expressing our revere for our women and would not expose them to this vilest political tryst in Nigeria with its lawlessness. IMF, World Bank and other multilateral bodies do not have the interest of non-western countries at heart and these entities make it impossible for nations to get off of these debts. It does not matter whether it is capitalism or communism. To this writer the two political ideologues and their likes are not good – and do not have answers to alleviate the human sufferings. While the former worships corporatization and or commercialization and control of resources in the hand of few, the latter promotes state-control and almost worship of and turning party leadership to gods such as North Korean – DPRK. Whether it is in former Soviet Union or here in United States it has always been about control, power and dominance of global resources. Russians did not beg for loans it was suggested to her by the United States and its controlled Bank operators. The US and these financial institutions gave or trade advisement to nations presenting it benchmarks as a better option to nations-states thus competing against local ideas, methodologies a nd creative ingenuity which they label or call traditional. The Bank and other multilateral partners based in Washington D.C. run and partner with these financiers when it comes to development project et al. So the assumptions that Russians begged for loans is unfounded and false, the climate was created for it by the Bank and the collapse of the former Soviet Union not the other way around.
China, Cuba and Venezuela and others for example refused to take the Bank’s loans and other financial advisements. Today they are gearing up to becoming vintage of power balancing gridlock in the global digital market economy, China in particular. Today, Cuba, proud her frontiers as a medical-nexus and one of the best centers in the world where one can find best trained doctors. Best doctors, better than those found in most European countries. Venezuela under Hugo Chavez currently is resisting and rejecting external influences thusly controls its resources and has altogether rejected IMF and Bank’s encroachments in all its forms and manifestations.
A week or two ago, Chavez came through on a promise he made earlier this year to provide oil to low-income communities in the U.S. Two Bronx groups – Mt. Hope Housing Corporation and Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, began receiving heating oil at discount prices. You can call it Hugo’s hubris. But at the end of the day, 8,000 families according to Sandra Guzman will purportedly save around $7 million. This is at a time when fuel costs are staggering and oil companies are reaping, recording breaking profits, Chavez’s fuel-for-for-poor grogram in the U.S. is a welcome relief of less income and less fortunate New York ers. This is not to say that Hugo’s a saint, but there seems to be something fascinating about this public figure. Friends depending on foreign expertise as Mr. Ula-Lisa write up seems to suggest will do us no good, building and supporting local ingenuity we will better off than depending on foreign ingenuity.
New ideas
In the foregoing indexes, it is a mistake to get into comparative analysis sometimes especially when these comparative schemes do not fit the picture of the discussions. Sometimes it does but not definitely in this case. Socio-economic-po litical dynamics of Nigeria is evidently different from those we sometimes compare her with. It is important that we look inward us rather than outward us to find lasting solution to Nigerian-mess.
What is wrong with Nigeria becoming a nexus of ingenuity that will prompt member states to seek and recommend her technological know-how to others that present her as a place to go when it comes to technological and scientific expertise?
First, patriotism is not completely measured by personal hard earned money in home turf or in foreign turf or by how much we send home to our families. Patriotism can be measured through honesty and sincerity benchmarks and other ethical indexes especially when it comes to our dealings one with another and fellow mankind. Support for our local ingenuity rather than enslaving Nigerian masses and the land to greedy foreign and domestic thieves is better off.
In Owerri’s Chamber of Commerce sometimes in the 80s and 90s one Mazi Anyanwu showcased a Nigerian built helicopter that was operated via solar system. In Enugu state, a Car was built powered by solar syste m via local engineering. By encouraging local ingenuity in the right way we can manufacture our own jets without sitting around waiting for foreign assistance in this area.
Second, a sincere balanced anti-corruption system needs be deployed with strong constitutional powers. In this way, it will remain in place regardless of who is in power administering Nigeria today or tomorrow. If fair capacity retention is effectively situated it will take away the fear of who takes-over from whom and the concept of good intentionality and intelligibility pathology will become something of the past. Also we are in this mess today because of Nigerian masses now dwells in passivity, opportunitism and charmelonism. No wonder organizations like MASSOB, NVF and others whose recent activity seems to have wakened the consciousness of Nigerians a bit on what is at stake. But the bad news is that 99.99 percent of Nigerians are gullible and gluttonous in their quest for riches and will do anything to get rich. This is a dangerous trend that needs be addressed or redirected.
Third, the conceptualization and politicization of dual-citizenship is irrelevant to this writer as 99.99 percent of Nigerians careless about dual-citizenship. The fact being that almost every Nigerian regardless of their place of aboard retains their characteristics of their Nigerian-ness. This is also true for those who have spent much part of their lives in their adopted countries and have bag ged varying degrees overtime. Nigerians at home can do better than Nigerians in their foreign adopted homes because those at home know better. Those at home know[s] better and live through these challenges and constraints everyday than those of us in far lands. Many Nigerians in far lands, more often than not have gone through hypnotization and pornographization and other social-cultural transformation to the point of confusing developments at home with those found in their adopted countries. These and other borrowed elements from foreign countries are more often than not are antithetical to the psycho-cultural dynamics found in the homeland.
For example statistics show that about 90 percent of Nigerians in foreign lands by omission or commission, negligence o r ineptitudes or all of the above do not speak, read or educate their children in their local Nigerian-dialects. Yet these groups claim patriotism while linguistically their practices at home are antithetical and unpatriotic. For me, to speak, read and educate our children in our local dialects are elements of patriotism and indeed a national pride. Let’s leave linguistics explanations for future dive.
Finally it is essential to observe that Mr. Ula-Lisa’s article is essentially based on the belief that foreign expertise is the answer to Nigeria difficulties. This is sheer false. To the contrary, foreign expertise will basta rdize our economy further. This bastardization and commercialization of our economy is done through collusion by western gatekeepers, by OBJ and his people. This is because these foreign expert have no interest of the people and the land at heart and careless whether we are dying or living than their profiteering of our resources – oil and gas and others; have no idea on how to make the necessary transition away from their foreign cultures, foreign trainings and foreign education which in all intents and purposes do not fit into Nigerian socio-econo-political or psycho-culturality found in Nigeria within its mix-ethnicity orthodoxy. Thusly, creating a circle of revisionist that makes it an impossibility to generate the decorum toward the part of a better, stronger, efficient and effective economy were Nigerians are indeed in charge of their lives through local ingenuity rather than neo-colonialism under foreign interventionism via oil-multilateral corporations that have turn the Ogoni-land, Omoku, Egbema and other places into nexus of wastelands and contributor to global-emissions and ecological abyss.
Suffice it to say that Ndiigbo has numerous sons to lead Nigeria in partnership with other Nigerians toward an enviable part of self-reliance and self-actualization. This noble track can be done by first and foremost getting started by deploying, appreciating indigenous technocrats with local ingenuity not foreign capacities that do not fit. With all due respect to Ngozi, she is not a presidential option for Nd iigbo. Dr. Mrs. Iweala Ngozi and her likes must work with other Nigerians at home and others in their adopted countries in far lands by adjusting and de-socializing herself/themselves from their hypnotized mindset of their high horse theaters derived from the west. A conceptualization and technologies that were indeed stolen from the continent – from Tumbamtu University in Mali under King Songhai and Abubakar III, from technological capacity from Egyptian architectures - Pyramids, from Ethiopia, from the industry of Bini-Kingdom and more. These conceptualization and philosophies now manipulated by the west and make hers is what this writer called: The Stolen Legacy. Foreign corrupted ideas and trainings would not do us any good. The only answer to Nigeria current predicament will found if only we return and turn locally to our own inventions, concepts and ideas that is culturally and ethnically acce ptable to its population. Ndiigbo’s leadership and capability is not in question whatsoever. What is in question today is Nigeria’s legacy after 45 years of its existence not great sons of Ndiigbo and many great sons of Ndi-Nigeria.
Igbo leadership in the Nigeria-plate can provide the needed leadership in 2007 in partnership with other Nigerians, by forging better alignments, realignments and redirect and organizationally reorganize the Nigerian-frontiers to a better and stronger prospect and a better life for its citizenry. Ndiigbo are not afraid to leave good and go for the great. One would hope this is the case for all Nigerians in the homeland and those across the atlantics. We must remember that the entire Black-world looks unto Nigeria in search for its pride and we cannot afford to fail them today and always.
December 1, 2005
Written by Carlisle U.O. Umunnah New York
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