That APC political machine is a monster.
They basically have been fukking up the worst for the past 10 years and they can still make votes appear when they need them to.
Also politics is a sham in Nigeria, til this day the only thing that really matters is what tribe you belong to and what God you worship.
The idea that and Christian Igbo man was going to rule over the Muslim North was always a pipe dream. You guys really underestimate the prejudice of the North and their loyalty to their people.
My uncles and cousins do business in the North primarily, and they say that the Northerners literally have a saying “I rather be exploited by my brother than a stranger”. If you are Christian, if you are Igbo, you are a stranger. This will never change, this is a spiritual belief.
The Legion of Doom.
It’s crazy the first time an Igbo candidate gets major western backing, it’s comes at a time that the West has less influence in Nigeria and Africa than ever before.
Africa as a whole has multiple interest in it now from China, India, Russia, Europe, the USA. But nobody talks about how much influence the Middle-East has on Nigeria through the Muslim political network. The Arabs are tricking on these northern politicians and Muslim leadership throughout Africa.
Islam really is a machine in itself, truly an organized religion. While Christianity is declining globally in numbers and influence, they are growing in numbers and influence. They really are gunning to rule the world.
As much as Igbos like to talk about the North and their shortcomings, Igbos don’t have a single cultural institution that unifies us anymore.
Not a religion, Christianity was it, but then decades of living in hell is making the younger generation lose faith, some start worshipping the ancestors again.
Not a political party. Within my family their are so many different political parties based on different things. Have uncles with no real political ideology, they just support whoever they know will guarantee them more money. Have uncles that are tribalist and believe you must support your tribesman against any outsider regardless of party. Have uncles that have party affiliations, but the parties themselves don’t really have any sound political ideology.
Club organizations are basically social climbing groups for those with money and even the legacy groups like Ohanaeze have no real cultural clout, they serve politicians for crumbs. They’re Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson status
Chieftancy can be bought for cheap, any man with a good job in America or Europe can become a chief now. Thus it means nothing outside of your specific village, and even then it’s just a respectful title to have, it doesn’t carry any real power.
All we have is some good land with a lot of natural resources, that we have absolutely no sovereignty over nor a clear path to gain sovereignty over it. We own the land on paper, but are handcuffed from ever profiting off that land to its full potential.
Biafra is a righteous goal, but detractors are right in saying that if it happened tomorrow it would fail. Because as much as Igbos rant about “our culture, our culture, our culture”, we really don’t have a shared culture anymore outside of window dressing stuff like festivals and language, even the language is dying out, and the festivals are us doing ancestral worship rituals without the actual ancestor worship.
Igbos globally need a cultural/spiritual/political
rebirth/reset/revival.
