Ikemba Nnewi, the former Head of State of the old Biafra and the Eze Gburugburu of the Igbo, in his morning address let me add the following.
If this great man were still alive today to witness what his Igbo people have been subjected to over the last two years under the Buhari administration he would have been the first to insist on Biafra all over again.
And the truth is that Ojukwu, Major Chukwuemeka Kaduna Nzeogwu and the great Zik of Africa, the Owelle of Onitsha, Chief Nnamdi Azikiwe have collectively resurrected in a young lion from the east called Nnamdi Kanu who he must handle with the utmost care.
What the President is unable to grasp and fails to comprehend is this: we are not children, we are not animals and we refuse to be second class citizens.
Simply put we would rather die as free men, standing on our feet and resisting evil, tyranny and subjugation than live as servile slaves and pliant bonded servants with bowed heads and on bended knee.
All Mr. President’s sinister and inappropiate talk about “red lines” and his insidious threats of bloodshed and bloodflow cannot change that and neither is anyone intimidated. Such talk is reckless, dangerous, irresponsible and inappropiate.
Worse of all other than saying that every Nigerian has the right to live in any part of the country, which in itself is undoubtedly a welcome and gratifying assertion, he refused to order the arrest or threaten to cage and bring to justice those that gave the Igbo people a chilling quit notice and that have promised to unleash genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass murder on them if they refused to abide by it and leave the north by October 1st..
This strange omission and instructive refusal by Mr. President is unacceptable and it feeds into the narrative that there may well be some kind of frightful hidden agenda unfolding.
It was also a missed opportunity to allay the legitimate fears and genuine concerns of many Igbos and southerners that live in the north.
I sincerely hope that history does not repeat itself in this regard.
Finally the President expressed his concerns about the social media.
The truth is that the internet has always been the nightmare of tyrants and dictators all over the world ever since it came into existence.
This is because it is designed to ensure the free flow of information and to expose their excesses and atrocities.
Now that our President has acknowledged his disdain and hate for this medium we will increase our efforts to make life more difficult for his government through it.
We will keep them on their toes and hold them to account by utilising the social and traditional media all the more. What he wishes to hide shall be made manifest and known to all.
His morning address was shallow, insensitive, uninspiring and divisive and, judging from what I saw, I believe that he should resign, go home and take care of his health.
That would be the best thing that he could do for Nigeria and that would be the best way to enhance national cohesion and unity.
