By Clement Udegbe
“Facing it , always facing it, that’s the way
to get through. Face it” —Joseph ConradMore.
Igbos have come to
that point in the national life of Nigeria, where they just have to
face it. They have to face the realities of these times. No one will develop
the South East for them except they face it. No one will stop crime and
kidnapping for them, except they face it. No one will spare their land from
Fulani herdsmen, whether they play the politics or not, they just have to face
it.
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No one will
terminate the buds of islamisation from growing in Igbo land for them, except
they face it. No one will stop the killings at the least provocation in the
north except they face it. No one will stop shooting at unarmed Igbo Youths
under whatever guise, except they face it. Some Igbos think they have money,
but none of them is on the Forbes list of the richest 100 in the
world, and none is on the list of the richest 100
in Africa, they have to face it.
And to face these and many more, they must, if they will get the Igbo land they
deserve from this Nigeria
we live in today. Igbos have to face the fact that as a people, they got it
wrong after the 1996 to 1967 civil war. They have to face the fact that
dispersing like the oil bean seed all over Nigeria
while neglecting their own region, and blaming all others is not the way to
push forward your agenda in the new Nigeria.
None of them will
become President without a solid political base at home, and joining other
peoples’ base will never help them. The South East has many rich sons who
started political parties perhaps just to access the money INEC was dolling out
to political parties in those days. They had no intentions to develop their
region politically, and they were not interested in forming any political base
in that region. Thus, their political parties died as soon as the free money
from Federal government for parties dried up. These Igbo men wanted quick money
without power, and today they keep scheming to join and jostle for positions in
main stream political parties that were formed by their colleagues who targeted
power and money, and remained faithful to that cause.