By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Nigerians love clichés to bits. But if there is anything they love more than clichés, it is their penchant to determine the fate of Ndigbo based on pre-conceived notions. As the curtain is slowly but inexorably being drawn on the Muhammadu Buhari presidency and the political silly season is, once again, upon us, those two tendencies are manifest.
As 2023 beckons, the buzz phrase these days is the fallacy that
power is not served a la carte. Interestingly, that banality is only voiced in
reference to the legitimate clamour for a Nigerian President of Igbo
extraction.
You often hear people speaking tongue-in-cheek that “power is taken and not given”, ostensibly latching onto Gloria Steinem’s phrase that “nobody gives you power; you have to grab it,” without putting it in context as Steinem, an American feminist journalist and social political activist, did.
