It will be a big loss for the Igbos to vote Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party and the candidate former President Olusegun Obasanjo is tactically supporting.
I read his book UNDER MY COMMAND, and I can see how he decimated Igbo’s Biafra agitation and for him to come out loud and be supporting Obi now, I think the Igbos should wake-up from their slumber before they lose out entirely in 2023, and I think Mr Peter Obi’s greediness and desperation has blind his face not to see the person he follows without putting interest of the Igbos first
Empirical research shows that Obasanjo cannot get 5% of votes that will be cast in the five state in the southwest for Labour Party of Mr Obi except Lagos because of Igbo population in the city and he cannot get the same in all 19 states except Abuja and it is evident that Obasanjo may not even win his ward for Obi.
The question is, since Obasanjo knows all this, why is he promoting Peter Obi an Igbo after he has fought to ensure that the dream of the Igbos to have their own country and their president when it was easy for them then did not materialize?
The answer to this cannot be far fetched. It was all in an attempt to put wool on the face of the Igbos, particularly the unborn before civil war, to present himself as Igbo’s friend and to be on the good book of the Igbos as he is getting older.
If he is truly a friend of the Igbos, why did he make sure he fought to the point where Biafra flag was torn down and the flag was low down with Igbo’s aspiration of having a Biafra nation dashed? Why did he not defected to the side of Biafran then?
Without any sense of deceit, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, the Governor of Anambra State, got it right when he said Mr Peter Obi cannot win the election, even a half brain thinker knows and by conscience Mr Obi Knows.
The Igbos of the eastern Nigeria should use 2023 to rethink their political journey in the Nigeria political enterprises
It might be a tough decision to take, but if Mr peter Obi of the Labour Party took to the word of Professor Tai Solarin, there may be opportunity for the Igbos to be the president of this country through the serious alignment between the North which Atiku Abubakar represents and the Igbo’s which Ifeanyi Okowa represents.
This Alignment would have helped an Igbo man to become Nigeria president in the nearest future. Though the late Vice President Alex Ekwueme came closer but was shortlived by Buhari/Idiagbon coup in 1983
If the Igbos take the wrong decision now, it will take them another 16 years to remain in their marginalization enclave in the enterprise call Nigeria
It is better to have their voices in the new government that will emerge after the 2023 elections than to be an outcast.
This is a wake-up call for my Igbo brothers and sisters I am a Yoruba man that was born in Agbor during the civil war and I could still remember how I was hide under the bed for months when Nigerian Army led by Obasanjo were on raping and killing spree of the Igbos
The Igbo race should wake-up before it is too late
Comrade Yahaya Majeed is an activist, social commentator and public affairs analyst based in Abuja FCT
