Isa Funtua doesn’t need to tell Igbo what to do to get presidency?
I have come to understand that not all those who come to grief with you or provide you with a shoulder to recline on at your time of vulnerability are really ‘’grieving with you’’. Most will exploit your low point to arrogate to themselves some importance and even offer gratuitous suggestions to nail you to the wall of guilt.
This is the sitch of the Igbo in Nigeria today. Everyone is now an adroit opinionist on what the ethnic nationality must do to ‘’get presidency’’ as if the group is one undeserving lot that has to grovel to get its due.
I must admit we have our own peculiar challenges as a people, and so do other ethnic nationalities in the country.
Really, I reckon as condescending the statement of Ismaila Isa Funtua, an associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, that the south-east must review its ways of playing politics in order to get the presidency.
He said the Igbo do not play inclusive politics and they like “do things on their own”.
According to him, “They (Igbo) should belong. They should join the party. They want to do things on their own and because they are Igbo, we should dash them the president? That was the reason I said is it turn by turn Nigeria Limited?”
He also said: “With due respect to the Igbo, they fail to understand that when the south-west chose to remain on their own as opposition, they did not go near the power. To a large extent, the north in terms of religion and culture is closer to the south-west than to the south-east. When Ekwueme contested (for the PDP ticket), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo defeated him.
