By Steve Osuji
Though the comment elicited pure, undiluted outrage one, dithered in commenting about it initially.
First, Igbo hating seems like a norm for Abike; a trait she cannot help. It seems to have lodged in her DNA like shrapnel. A number of times, in her unguarded moments, her true colours would peek from the horizon like the rising sun.
Second, some Yoruba elements have taken Igbo baiting, bashing
and hating to a new level in the last decade.
Consider the lineup: a paramount monarch of Lagos, the daughter of the sitting president, the current first lady in Aso Rock and the President's chief spokesman, among others, all have publicly and brazenly made hate remarks against the Igbo people of the southeast of Nigeria.
