By Tony Iwuoma
The greatest misunderstanding about Ndigbo in Nigeria is not the resentment they face. It is the ignorance surrounding why that resentment exists. And that ignorance is dangerous. People insult what they envy, but systems fear what they cannot control.
Beyond marginalisation, exclusion, and endless arguments about fairness, there is a deeper and more unsettling truth: Ndigbo represent an uncontrollable force in a country engineered around control, patronage, and dependency. That reality makes power deeply uncomfortable.
Conformity is rewarded in Nigeria but independence is punished. A system tolerates groups it can predict but fears those it cannot cage.
