THE IGBOS AND THE REST OF US

Lessons from the 2015 General Elections: Indeed in the 2015 General elections the North gave PMB/APC-80.23%, Southwest gave PMB/APC-15.31%, Southsouth that is even GEJ's zone gave PMB/APC 3.18% but the Igbo's Southeast gave PMB/APC-1.28% of their votes only! One can imagined they are all alone being with the PDP for the last 18years and giving PDP consistently more than 98% of their votes, having majority of all their; Senators, Federal House of Representative members, State Assembly members, Chairmen, Councillors etc, going to the PDP!, but the yet the PDP did not with the slightest mind set trust them to give them even the VP position in the last 16years of PDP rule in Nigeria! Also PDP did not do many of the key projects than the PMB's APC is doing to them today! But for their ingratitude look at what they are up to now with PMB/APC and the rest of Nigerians!.

Also with their; 5states and an average population of about 3.2million/state, when Northwest with 7statesand an average population of 5.3million/state,the Igbo's with just a population of 16millions, a voter strength of a little above 7millions voters, they have Federal Civil Servants of over 19,000 of the 89,000 National Total which represents 21.35% living the Northwest with the population of over 36millions, a voter strength of over 18million voters, but sadly with a Federal Civil Servants of just 8,100 which represents only 9.10%, imagined!.

Yet the Igbo's are everywhere crying for marginalization when they are not up to half the Northwest but have more than double the share of the Northwest in Federal Civil Servants allocation in Nigeria! One therefore was left to wonder what really can this people have to satisfy their greed and unsatiable lust for accumulation over and above others! After all even the so called oil that was developed by our sweat is from the Southsouth! not their Southeast So what really do they want to allow others a relative peace!? Also, despite the Civil War that lasted 3years and the mutual distrust that ensured after, when in 1979 we returned to civil rule, the North's NPN still Trusted them with a Position of a Vice President! In Alex Ekweime, therefore one wonder to then ask for Gods sake what else do they want from the North!? Or owned us other that gratitude!? but...... The saying goes that a leopards will never change its colour!.The reality remains either they are ready to change and appreciate the sacrifices make by others just to accommodate and tolerate them! for live and let's others just lived! Or the bitter truth is whether we can continue to tolerate them as they are! or at best since we can't satisfy their unsatiable lust! We have no any other alternative than to peacefully allows them to go! So that we can at least  have our peace.

For my brother former President GEJ where was he when our people were humiliated, arrested, maimed, etc in the Southeast before his watch as a leader? Or yet when our people were butchered, maimed, brutally killed at Ile Ife! We did not hear from him the slogan that a Nigeria have the right to live in every part if Nigeria that he/she chooses to! So some are full/real Nigerians while others are half/fake Nigerians!? We can only progressed if we genuinely and truely choose to stand on the side of justice any time any day! No matter who is involved. Otherwise.... Dr. Sadiq Abubakar Umar Gombe