If Ganduje and Sanusi were Igbos, the narrative would have changed. Other Nigerians will be like, “Igbos hate themselves. They are not united.”
Everything you use as yardstick to judge Igbos especially as it affects unity happens in other ethnic groups. In fact, I have used different criteria to judge and I can authoritatively tell you that Igbos are one of Nigeria’s most united ethnic groups.
Teach an Igbo man a skill in Lagos. After three years, he goes to his village, picks unemployed boys(graduates and uneducated ones), houses them, feeds them and teaches them the same skill. He wants them to share their own success story in future. That’s how many Igbos you see in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt came there. Every artisan or businessman of Igbo extraction has another Igbo man he wants to teach for free especially from his village.
Since 1999, our voting pattern as a people have remained uniform. And when I say uniform, I mean a significant majority voting for a particular presidential aspirant. We still remain predominantly Christian despite the places many Igbos have visited.
It’s safe to say we share a common ideology. The Nigerian press writes a lot of hogwash about Igbos. So many people believe what the Nigerian press puts on paper.
