Igbo Must Go: A Yoruba War Chant That Will Not Only Fail, But Surely Backfire

Igbo Must Go: A Yoruba War Chant That Will Not Only Fail, But Surely Backfire The Hollywood movie “House of cards” is a classic that exposes...

Igbo Must Go: A Yoruba War Chant That Will Not Only Fail, But Surely Backfire

The Hollywood movie “House of cards” is a classic that exposes the political horse trading, betrayals and sellouts. It is a mirror to the unethical and unprincipled nature of politicians. It unravels the lying nature of career politicians. The legendary classification of politicians as chameleons is indisputable. As in the “Game of thrones”, their proclivity to play on the emotions of the people, and eventually end up undoing themselves is displayed in full public view. These movies show the underlying nature of an average politician whose only inclination is how power is wielded and their total lack of interest in learning how it blinds, nourishes and destroys.

The Yoruba is a tribe notorious as a sellout, plotting always to take advantage of an engineered fissure between other tribes in the British contraption called Nigeria. Its main target in the scheme is usually the eastern region, especially the Igbo nation. Its political calculation is always to be the preferred house wife to the chosen British slave – the Fulani. This is perfectly in line with their ancestral footprints and a repeat of historical failure.

From history, the Afonja sold out Ilorin empire by being subservient to the Fulani. It ended in bloody conquest of present day Kwara state. A state the Yoruba may never recover. The present situation of things in the British contraption is due to the hypocritical role the Yoruba played during the 1967/1970 war. All they had to do to guarantee a better country was to refuse to go to war with the Fulani, but they chose the former in their characteristic chameleonic nature.

As all the industries were decimated, as the harsh economic policies were hauled at the Eastern region, they cheered on. Hoping to take advantage and replace the only competition they fear from the umbilical cord, they stoked ethnic tension and division. 

The monopolistic existence of Lagos seaport and International airport, like Dangote, was more important to the treacherous Yoruba than a functional and progressive nationhood. They have played the religious card to their advantage, forgetting that it might backfire. They answer Mohammed to deceive the Fulani and, once power is ceded to them, they roll with Kunle. They pretend to be Christians to dial down uniformity of purpose from the Christian community.

M.K.O Abiola played this religious card, but ended like Afonja. This religious card has entrenched radicalism from the Fulani to the Yoruba, and this is their greatest undoing. The notion that, somehow, they will replay the 1967/1970 scenario by whipping up ethnic sentiment against the Igbo nation, geared towards a strategical plan to collect from the back door lands sold formally to Igbo illustrious sons and daughters will prove unworkable. This is because of a combination of factors as the diaspora expansion of Igbo nation, the lack of control and narration of media and, most importantly, the understanding that any other war in the British contraption will touch every region and ensure the demise of Lagos. The Yoruba do not want to lose Lagos. They would prefer the unofficial loss of 50 percent of Lagos through property acquisition than total and absolute destruction.

If the Yoruba rascals really mean the threat they issued on the Igbo nation, we welcome it. It is in line with our rejection and challenge to the indissolubility of one Nigeria. But everyone knows that they are spineless and cowards. The Yoruba know by now that the treacherous life they have chosen will not only fail them, but will surely backfire. This gives them sleeplessness and makes them panic.

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