With harmattan comes dusty wind and longing for Christmas. For the igbos fanned across Nigeria, it is a season to go home to their ancestral villages to count their blessings and losses from January to December.
With this season, transport fares of transport companies owned by Ndi Igbo skyrocket and with it comes the boisterous shout of marginalization, cry against Nigerian government to like the Biblical Pharaoh, to let my people go.
But where are they going?
What will they see?
Who have held them in bondage?
I have been inundated with videos and writings by a cross section of Ndi Igbo calling on our businessmen to move their businesses to Igboland.
I have seen a video claiming Ladipo traders are moving spare parts business to the east.
I have watched angry Igbo abuse Lagos State Government for demolishing properties owned by Igbo people as a sort of political vendetta.
I have read, watched, and heard all sorts of allegations of marginalisation of Igbo people by the contraption we call Nigeria.
I have read people praise MNK for “opening Igbo eyes” to the discrimination we face in Nigeria.
I have seen, read, and heard all sorts.
Let me make one point clear: Politically, we have been marginalised. States and local governments were skewed against us.
The powers that be, as we say, over time gerrymandered Nigeria to their advantage, effectively making it impossible for the Igbo to be elected to the nation’s highest office without the support of two key nations: the Yoruba and the Hausa/Fulani.
I shall return to this later. 
But we fought the war and lost it. Our enemies knew our potential and knew that if they allowed us to flourish, we would overwhelm them and secede. If we do, others will follow, and Nigeria will cease to be. So, they made sure we were put in check.
What did we do? I shall come to that later.
We have held the office of Vice President of Nigeria. Alex Ekwueme was the occupant. Who was his greatest challenger? Chief Jim Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo from Enugu. When Ekwueme ran for the presidency against Olusegun Obasanjo, who was his greatest obstacle? Jim Nwobodo.
When Obasanjo won and became president, we got choice positions. We got Senate presidency. What did we do with it?
Fight! Fight! And fight!
From Evan(s) Enwerem (Imo) to Chuba Okadigbo (Anambra), down to Pius Anyim Pius (Ebonyi) to Adolf Wabara (Abia) and finally Ken Nnamani (Enugu).
Every Igbo state took turns at one office. Umar Ghali N’Abba remained Speaker while we changed the presidency of the Senate like wrapper. Between 1999 and 2015, Igbo politicians occupied the aviation sector. From Ojo Maduekwe to Fidelia Njeze, Kema Chikwe, Stella Oduah, Osita Chidoka, Emeka Ihedioha in the house, Hope Uzodimma in the Senate. What did we achieve?
Stella got Enugu an international airport. Igbo politicians looted the funds meant to develop it.
The runway kept failing until Buhari, through his cousin, spent N10b on it.
During that time, Igbo abused him. One journalist from Anambra accused him of closing the airport for repairs “in December so as to stop us from celebrating Christmas.” He forgot Oduah closed it for 18 months, and nothing tangible was done. He forgot there are many entry points into the South East, with Enugu airport being one of them. That’s the Igbo victim cry.
Now, properties are being demolished in Lagos for being erected on “unapproved lands.” Markets are closed temporarily for being filthy and are opened when the terms of cleanliness are met. It is targeted at Ndigbo. In those markets, there is Yoruba, too.
What do we do?
We cry marginalisation. We abuse Yoruba. We suddenly woke up to the realities of moving our businesses to the East. Typically, we make so much noise about it. Ndi oke amamife.
Let me tell us, if we move our markets, our brothers who have no shops will take over. If we move to the East, our criminal brothers will kidnap us. If we leave Lagos, others will take over and carry out those businesses we think we know best. The Indians. The Lebanese. The Chinese. The Yoruba. Don’t kid yourselves. Others will take over, including Igbo, who have no shops currently. Stop making noise.
If we move our businesses to the East, we will need Lagos ports to clear our containers. The Nigeria government, as opposed to you as you think, will decide what happens to ports in Port Harcourt, Calabar, etc.
Goods cleared in Lagos ports and moved to the East by road or by train would be more expensive than the ones sold in Lagos. Who will buy those in the East? Ndigbo and fringe states.
I have worked with people from Imo and Abia States. Their hatred for the Anambra man is legendry. Forget it!
We are pretending to be one because of our hatred for the Yoruba and the Hausa/Fulani. We are not. The Enugu man hates us. The Abalaliki man and the Enugu man don’t agree. Abia State, whose psychopath brother took us on a wild goose chase, sacked all Anambra people in their employ. Lagos still has many of our brothers and sisters in their employ. Yet, they hate us.
Politics is a game. It is also local. Igbo, don’t play it well. They are crying, crying, baby. As can be seen above, they flunked every opportunity to get into the mainstream through tactlessness and jealousy. They still do it to date.
We are noisy, boisterous, uncouth, and loud. We are largely undiplomatic. We think of ourselves having superior knowledge. We underate others. We look down on others. And they trash us. And we cry like babies.
Despite claims by some of us, I challenge anybody to show me one thing MASSOB and IPOB achieved with their years of agitation for Biafra. Just one.With MASSOB, we became a minority because Ralp Uwazurike, who was on a wild goose chase, asked us to boycott census, and we did. He has made his money and settled for a better life.
With MNK, the South East is completely demystified. Four Mondays in a month, we lose billions of naira to the senseless sit at home. The rest of Nigeria mocks us as we kill ourselves. Some claim a fifth columnist is at work, and I ask, who allowed them? Ndi oke amamife.
Let me tell us. Nigeria does not fear us anymore. They ‘don see us finish.’ You can go to h*ll, they say.
If we want to develop our area, making noises on social media won’t accelerate that.
If you don’t want your properties demolished, buy and develop on approved lands. Get a lawyer to carry out investigations for you.
If we want to build in the east, let’s get our political leaders to make our area safe and conducive for investment to thrive. Not by abusing them.
Finally, if we must move forward, we must refuse to allow people from old Imo State who are known to be chronic 419ners lead us to the path of perdition.
Imo and Abia State have been ruled by certified 419ners, with Imo being unlucky consecutively. These are people who lead us, who see tomorrow for us.
We can do better.
Buhari was Jibril. He died and was replaced by Jibril for seven years. This was what we were told, and we gullibily believed it. Today, Buhari is in Daura, and we are scattered all over Nigeria, still crying like babies.
Where is Jibrin? Where is Jibril? To think that we believed this rubbish, shared it, beggers belief. Listen, my dear people, we are the butt of jokes now. The only thing we do well is make noise. Noise in celebrating birthdays, house warming, funerals, and songs.
Even in religion, we don’t still realise we are being fooled. They have Adeboye, who has contributed to developing Yoruba land.
We have Odumejeje who clowns in Onitsha. – *indaboski*.
Our pentecostal churches are called Igbo Church. They avoid them. Theirs are revered. We troupe there to pay tithe and give offerings used to develop the area.
Ndi oke amamife. (High sense/deluded sense of superior intelligence) We can do better if we know better. Unfortunately, we don’t.
This is a wake-up call
